Hairshirt Cilice Quotes & Sayings

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they? — James Purefoy

I had no business inviting other people's emotions into my life when I had no idea what to do with my own. — Gwen Hayes

If only, I thought, I could talk to Eugene just one more time. This was before I came to understand that you cannot make someone fall in love with you But here's what you can do. By arguing and pleading and screaming and crying and throwing plates and phoning a lot and bringing hot food and sending flowers and buying gifts and doing unsolicited favors and remembering a birthday and being nice and declaring your abiding love and trying hard or sometimes merely by being present, you can make someone who was hitherto lukewarm really detest you. — Patricia Marx

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two. — Alan Shapiro

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it. — Francis Atterbury

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization. — Anita Roddick

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing. — Joyce Tenneson

Those who should, never will. Those who will, never should. (about presidential candidates) — Anonymous

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals? — Amy Poehler

I climbed on my bike and headed down Main Street, noticing that puddles were already starting to form on the pavement. — Morgan Matson