Palinesque Quotes & Sayings

Just to sit for a moment, herself, no one claiming her time or her thoughts or the product of her mind and hands. What other word to call that if not freedom? — Tara Conklin

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. — Elmore Leonard

Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires. — Sumantra Ghoshal

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. — Dorothy Day

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. — Sherman Alexie

There are no interruptions, really - there are simply mismanaged occurrences. — David Allen

If we divide human attributes into "masculine" and "feminine" and strengthen only those attributes that "belong" to that sex, we cut off half of ourselves from ourselves as human beings, condemned forever to search for our other half. The world is in desperate need of multilayered human beings with the voices, stamina, and insight to break through our current calcified ways of doing things, (...) The patriarchal structures of honor, shame, violence, and might is right, do as much harm to Hamlet, Edgar, Lear, and Coriolanus as they do to Ophelia, Desdemona, Lady Macduff (...)
(...) To have feelings, intuitive flights of understanding, a desire to have knowledge of what is happening below the surface, to serve. These are often called "feminine" attributes, and it is true that many women in the plays possess them. But they also belong to Kent, Ferdinand, Florizel, Camillo, as well as the women. So they are not "feminine" attributes: they are human attributes. — Tina Packer

If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right? — Henry Rollins

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own. — Andy Serkis

What we have to continue to remind ourselves is that violence is a choice. — Rosie Batty

A continual fellowship with God gives us His wisdom to properly evaluate the events that are occurring — Sunday Adelaja

The prairie skies can always make you see more
than what you believe. — Jackson Burnett