Kluckhohn And Strodtbecks Quotes & Sayings

If he had attacked me outright, I might have been able to defend myself. Instead, he exposed my secret as if offering himself to me. I was left mute, listening to my heart pounding in my chest. — Yoko Ogawa

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers. — Cornelia Funke

Shortcoming - another one of my shortcomings. I rubbed my brows with my thumb and forefinger. I'd been equally foolish for feeling a shred of pity for him - for the lone, brooding faerie, for someone I had so stupidly thought would really care if he met someone who perhaps felt the same, perhaps understood - in my ignorant, insignificant human way - what it was like to bear the weight of caring for others. I should have let his hand bleed that night, should have known better than to think that maybe - maybe there would be someone, human or faerie or whatever, who could understand what my life - what I - had become these past few years. — Sarah J. Maas

People must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are. — M.F. Moonzajer

Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul. — William Wordsworth

As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart. — Madeleine Roux

FROM TIME TO TIME, there was talk among the astronauts that it might be nice to have a drink with dinner. Beer is a no-fly, because without gravity, carbonation bubbles don't rise to the surface. "You just get a foamy froth," says Bourland. He says Coke spent $450,000 developing a zero-gravity dispenser, only to be undone by biology. Since bubbles also don't rise to the top of a stomach, the astronauts had trouble burping. "Often a burp is accompanied by a liquid spray," Bourland adds. — Mary Roach

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. — Edward Bellamy

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do. — Phil Keoghan

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now. — Ben Stein

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family. — Jerry Only

Victory is victory, dead is dead, however it is achieved. — Christopher Paolini