Habiles Quotes & Sayings

Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing. — John Philip Sousa

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. — Paul Valery

Ne te quaesiveris extra. (Do not seek for things outside of yourself) — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. — Douglas Martin

My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go, — Annabel Tollman

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men. — Helen Fisher

Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, "on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life? — Edith Wharton

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake. — Michael Chabon

A little
bunny or some kind of ferret was probably
there too, and bore witness as only rodents can. — John Ashbery

One of the greatest challenges of becoming myself has been acknowledging that I'm not who I thought I was supposed to be or who I always pictured myself being. — Brene Brown

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre. — Perry Groves

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud. — Audrey MacLean

If you had not been broken, then you would never have known you were blessed. — Lisa Gore

So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that 35 percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down. — Douglas Adams