Incontrovertibe Quotes & Sayings

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way. — Thomas Sadoski

I have lived my life very openly, and have never hidden the fact that I am gay! — Jonathan Knight

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. — Thomas Jefferson

But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward
craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment
will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come. — Charles Duhigg

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light. If they were permanently congealed, and small enough to be clutched, they would, perchance, be carried off by slaves, like precious stones, to adorn the heads of emperors; but being liquid, and ample, and secured to us and our successors forever, we disregard them, and run after the diamond of Kohinoor. They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters, are they! — Henry David Thoreau

A not 100-percent-perfect-looking-in-every-way female? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours. — Mindy Kaling

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. — Frank Sinatra

The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to world financial markets and to an increasingly asset-dependent global economy. — Stephen S. Roach

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt. — Dasha Zhukova

Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. — Junot Diaz