Noncooperative Quotes & Sayings

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole. — Augusten Burroughs

This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head. — Marcel Proust

Get yourself into something that you don't have passion for and feel like an idiot always. — Ameya Agrawal

I have to say, after hanging out with Republicans for four days, I want to take a look at my own birth certificate. I don't think I was born in this country. — Andy Kindler

We're generally quite good at doing something, but we're really bad at doing nothing. — John Ortberg

How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts — Dorothy Ferguson

I've heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them."
Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food"
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"But the Refuge food is too cooperative," he grumbled. "How much blood do they think I can drink? — Nalini Singh

One's own best self. For centuries, this was the key concept behind any essential definition of friendship: that one's friend is a virtuous being who speaks to the virtue in oneself. How foreign such a concept to the children of the therapeutic culture! Today we do not look to see, much less affirm, our best selves in one another. To the contrary, it is the openness with which we admit to our emotional incapacities - the fear, the anger, the humiliation - that excites contemporary bonds of friendship. Nothing draws us closer to one another than the degree to which we face our deepest shame openly in one another's company... What we want is to feel known, warts and all: the more warts the better. It is the great illusion of our culture that what we confess to is who we are. — Vivian Gornick

Kyle, you are a mellow dude ... You can't be with an agitator. And that's what she is. An agitator. She's a Jackson Pollock and you're a Thomas Kinkade. — Genevieve Dewey

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him. — Lynn Austin

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past. — A.B. Shepherd

When we came to America, the movies here needed a "new wave." European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush, glossy pictures with this elaborate production design. — Vilmos Zsigmond