Masted Dog Quotes & Sayings

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning ... — Ari Fleischer

People will hold an opinion because they want to keep the company of others who share the opinion, or because they think it is the respectable opinion, or because they have publicly expressed the opinion in the past and would be embarrassed by a "U-turn," or because the world would suit them better if the opinion were true, or . . . Perhaps it is better to get on with your family and friends, to avoid embarrassment, or to comfort yourself with fantasies than to believe the truth. But those who approach matters in this way should give up any pretensions to intellectual seriousness. They are not genuinely interested in reality. — Jamie Whyte

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up. — Miranda July

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk — John Keats

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. — David Eagleman

Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication. — Charles Todd

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah. — Alistair Cooke

People want what was best about the world. — Emily St. John Mandel

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what. — Magic Johnson

One thing I learned, between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get off of. You can't get clean from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though.
Darlene, in The Marriage Plot — Jeffrey Eugenides