Office Attire Quotes & Sayings

I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose. — Thornton Wilder

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor. — Joseph Lowery

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. — Julian Barnes

In life, you're going to have a lot of problems. Everybody's got problems. Some is worse than others. Some is sickness. Some, like me, you've got problems that you don't like that come up. But you've got to handle them. — Tom Benson

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators. — Jill Lepore

Music, even at terrible moments, can make you accept so much more- accept your dark sides, or the things that happened to you. Maybe it's just because you see that we are not alone. And that's what the concert situation is about for me, when I'm sitting in the hall and also when I'm playing myself. It's about communication - I almost want to say 'communion'. As a player, you really don't interpret anymore. You listen, together, with the audience. — Christian Tetzlaff

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different. — Cormac McCarthy

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. — Lydia M. Child

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees". — Pope John Paul II

The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook. — Karen Armstrong

It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it ... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them. — Salman Rushdie

I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore. — Paul Auster

The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair. — Diana Pavlac Glyer

Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group. — Carol Tavris