Minxes Trinkets Quotes & Sayings

E. Lawrence wrote that "happiness is absorption": I — Michael Lipson

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent. — Norman Angell

He will win whose army is animated by the spirit throughout all its ranks. — Sun Tzu

'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you. — Robert Browning

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud. — Paula Radcliffe

Lass, you've the face of an angel but the tongue of a snake. — Tricia Levenseller

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds. — James Surowiecki

the fear of conflict is almost always a sign of problems. — Patrick Lencioni

London was a graveyard haunted by dead faiths. A city and a landscape. A market laid on feudalisms. Gathering and hunting, little pockets of alterity, too, but most of all in the level Billy had come to live in a tilework of fiefdoms, theocratic duchies, zones and spheres of influences, over each of which some local despot, some criminal pope, sat watch. It was all who-knew-whom, gave access to what, greased which palms on what route to where. — China Mieville

Sure enough, he seemed to straighten a little more with every step of her fuck-me heels. — Voirey Linger