Overfocusing Quotes & Sayings

I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl. — Joyce Giraud

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. — Harold Macmillan

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose. — Russell Brand

I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation. — Tommy Franks

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city. — David Bailey

I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show and all of the sudden the doors swing wide open. Christians want to connect with things that are mainstream. — Anthony Evans

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Companies spend as much as 70 percent of their marketing budget to attract new customers while 90 percent of their revenues come from current customers. Many companies lose money on their new customers during the first few years. By overfocusing on acquiring new customers and neglecting current customers, companies experience a customer attrition rate of between 10 and 30 percent a year. Then they waste further money on a neverending effort to attract new customers or win back ex-customers to replace those they just lost. — Anonymous

Families are the treasure of heaven. — Neil L. Andersen

I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things. — Charlie Munger

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist. — Bruce Springsteen

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.
That was, he supposed, human nature. — Jim Butcher

This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity
an out-and-out favorite of mine. — Diana Kennedy

Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference-learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind. — Elizabeth Keckley

Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity's sake?
Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. "I do what I can." Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. "You are a brave man. — Gail Carriger