Irked Def Quotes & Sayings

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works. — Barry Diller

When your children are very young it is impossible to imagine a life where they will not live with you, where you will not see them every day or know what they are doing. As they grow up, you gradually untangle your 'self' from their 'selves' until the day arrives when you look at your child and realize the role you play in their life is no longer a central one. It's hard to recognize that your child is independent, but it's also incredibly liberating."
-- from Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story — Maureen Wheeler

At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers ... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came. — Violette Leduc

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of. — Andrew Solomon