Kisisel Blog Quotes & Sayings

The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

To make any gain some outlay is necessary. — Plautus

Emotions don't arrive intact. Shards injure you incrementally, so small at first you don't notice them. Over time, the damage builds and one day you realise the nicks and cuts have become gaping wounds. Worse still, they've become the very thing that defines you. — Nigel Jay Cooper

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. — Lloyd Alexander

Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all. — Pericles

Although I was deliberately dismissive of this idea at the beginning of the chapter, the real answer is, "Well, yes, sort of." Nathan DeWall, together with Naomi Eisenberger and other social rejection researchers, conducted a series of studies to test out the idea that over-the-counter painkillers would reduce social pain, not just physical pain. In the first study, they looked at two groups of people. Half of them took 1,000 milligrams a day of acetaminophen (that is, Tylenol), and half of them took equivalently sized placebo pills with no active substances in them. Both groups took their pills every day for three weeks. Each night, the participants answered questions by e-mail regarding the amount of social pain they had felt that day. By the ninth day of the study, the Tylenol group was reporting feeling less social pain than the placebo group. — Matthew D. Lieberman

Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy. — John B. Tabb

He understood a great many things about his parents, and he knew that many times they didn't like his understandings and many other times refused to believe them. — Stephen King

Both my parents are first-generation success stories. — Solange Knowles