Lexmond Mitchell Quotes & Sayings

Must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely. — Thomas Reid

What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild! — Dylan Moran

There it was again: "Came in to see us", as if it were an enjoyable little day trip that lots of people made, just because it was such a nice place to be. — Ruth Mancini

He who don't know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear. — Daniel M. Gilbert

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion. — Deepak Chopra

I can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them. — Robert Longo

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. — J.K. Rowling

Self-control problems can be illuminated by thinking about an individual as containing two semiautonomous selves, a far-sighted "Planner" and a myopic "Doer." You can think of the Planner as speaking for your Reflective System, or the Mr. Spock lurking within you, and the Doer as heavily influenced by the Automatic System, or everyone's Homer Simpson. The Planner is trying to promote your long-term welfare but must cope with the feelings, mischief, and strong will of the Doer, who is exposed to the temptations that come with arousal. Recent research in neuroeconomics (yes, there really is such a field) has found evidence consistent with this two-system conception of self-control. Some parts of the brain get tempted, and other parts are prepared to enable us to resist temptation by assessing how we should react to the temptation.1 Sometimes the two parts of the brain can be in severe conflict - a kind of battle that one or the other is bound to lose. — Richard H. Thaler

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word
the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again. — Philip Larkin

It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target. — Val McDermid

In his speech President Bush said we need to rebuild Iraq, provide the people with jobs, and give them hope. If it works there maybe we'll try it in New Orleans. — Jay Leno

When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't. — Josh Hartnett

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans. — Peter Benchley