Jillianne Mencel Quotes & Sayings

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly. — Iain Duncan Smith

Would you think it strange if I said I was having a good time? We're lost and confused and carrying around a cat. By all accounts, I should be feeling completely at a loss. Irritated. — Shelley Shepard Gray

We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I despise you and I love you, you who are my damnation and salvation both. — John Scalzi

The trees, the stones and the earth had taken him inside themselves, but in their shape it was possible still to discern something of the man he had once been. — Susanna Clarke

Practice yourself what you preach. — Plautus

But sometimes, like tonight, she feels plugged in to the raw emotion of it all, a closed circuit, and if she doesn't keep it at arm's length, it still has the power to break her. — Blake Crouch

the all too human need to conjure symbolic meaning from meaningless events. — Steven Erikson

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls. — Carolyn Mackler

Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four. — Travie McCoy

Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic, with a good chance of A. indifference and B. disinterest in what the critics say. — Panic At The Disco

Now take a look at the cemetery. It is quite difficult to do so because people who fail do not seem to write memoirs, and, if they did, those business publishers I know would not even consider giving them the courtesy of a returned phone call (as to returned e-mail, fuhgedit). Readers would not pay $26.95 for a story of failure, even if you convinced them that it had more useful tricks than a story of success.* The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events. Now consider the cemetery. The graveyard of failed persons will be full of people who shared the following traits: courage, risk taking, optimism, et cetera. Just like the population of millionaires. There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb