Nimmer Northeast Quotes & Sayings

The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse. — Price Pritchett

You can't motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated. — Brad Feld

When a woman dresses modestly, I can take her seriously as a woman because she doesn't look like she's begging for attention. She knows that she's worth discovering. Such humility is radiant. Unfortunately, many women are so preoccupied with turning men's heads that they overlook their power to turn our hearts. — Jason Evert

George dutifully dusted the marks from the expensive rug and retired to the kitchen to await a grave and disapproving Collins, wishing with all of his boyish heart that he had applied for the stables. Cleaning stalls had to be beneficial exercise, and surely one must become accustomed to the smells...eventually. — Sarah Brazytis

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses. — Richard Steele

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it. — Denise Duhamel

I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential. — Tim Scott

There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences. — Bill Henson

He loved her lips. He could imagine them wrapped around his cock even now., leaving a red circle...a brand. A red brand on his cock. — Susannah Scott

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better. — Joseph Heller

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself. — Henry James

Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My, if I didn't loathe her so much, I'd admire her. — Rachel Caine

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex. — Marlo Thomas