Modified Adjusted Quotes & Sayings

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death — Stella Adler

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs. — Elizabeth Vargas

Do understand: Chinese people are brilliant; the West cannot fool them. — Andre Vltchek

Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem. — C.S. Lewis

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me. — Oscar De La Hoya

It's a risk I'm willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction ... you touch her skin and it's the best skin you've ever felt, and no perfume on earth could be better than her smell, and you know you could never be bored with her because she's interesting even when she's doing nothing. Even without knowing everything about her, you get her. You know who she is, and it works for you on every level. — Lisa Kleypas

Overshadowing all Roosevelt's decisions, Perkins wrote, "was his feeling that nothing in human judgment is final. One may courageously take the step that seems right today because it can be modified tomorrow if it does not work well." He was an improviser, not a planner. He took a step and adjusted, a step and adjusted. Gradually a big change would emerge. — David Brooks

His plans never worked out. In time,he found himself graying and wearing looser pants and in a state of weary acceptance, that this was who he was and who he would always be, a man with sand in his shoes in a world of mechanical laughter — Mitch Albom

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence.. — Ian Tucker

God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe. — Albert Einstein

We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse. — Karen Mills

Switch spots with me, J. He's making me feel all goosebumpy and shit, like maybe he's about to knife me. — Tahereh Mafi

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him. — Roselee Goldberg