Magnificas 2021 Quotes & Sayings

Giving people favors is a time-honored way of gaining loyalty. Pharmaceutical reps do it. The salespeople manning cosmetic counters do it. Lobbyists do it. Men with big crushes on impossibly beautiful women do it. Gifts work on our feelings in a couple of ways: they change the way we experience something, and they push our "reciprocate!" button. When we have the mandate to be objective and an incentive not to be, our biases often win the day-even if we don't think they will. Favors deeply affect our preferences and our loyalties. — Dan Ariely

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. — Laurence J. Peter

I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home. — Jessica Biel

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock. — Nigel Dennis

Our actions, you know? They last forever. Whatever we do, it'll always be what we did. There's no taking them back. — Hugh Howey

We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share. — Deepak Chopra

Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think of how they can do nothing about it. — Laurel Nakadate

I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it — Lil' Wayne

He was coming to understand why the other sentinels had nicknamed her Tricks. It wasn't just because they had taught her all the dirty fighting tricks they knew. — Thea Harrison

If you want to know a country, read its writers. — Aminatta Forna

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved. — Tom Rooney