Not Ignoring Shy People Quotes & Sayings

People offer me loads of stuff, and some of it I like, but I just can't do it because I can't write it all. So I might get in the position where I have some sort of company and just write maybe the first episode, but these are love projects, in a way. — Michael Hirst

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America. — Newt Gingrich

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. — Oscar Wilde

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind. — Julia Quinn

Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication. — Vironika Tugaleva

He has two antagonists: the first presses him from behind, from the origin. The second blocks the road ahead. He gives battle to both. To be sure, the first supports him in his fight with the second, for he wants to push him forward, and in the same way the second supports him in his fight with the first, since he drives him back. But it is only theoretically so. For it is not only the two antagonists who are there, but he himself as well, and who really knows his intentions? His dream, though, is that some time in an unguarded moment and this would require a night darker than any night has ever been yet he will jump out of the fighting line and be promoted, on account of his experience in fighting, to the position of umpire over his antagonists in their fight with each other. — Franz Kafka

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world. — Mark McKinnon

Culpable obtuseness. He should know better. That's one reason why we don't use the a-word, for example, of little children. They can merit the s-word, because there's a malignity that's innate in little kids sometimes, but you can't merit the a-word until you're old enough so that you ought to know better. — Geoffrey Nunberg