Parable Armenian Quotes & Sayings

It was in these sessions that I first came across the "To my shame" technique ... You can get away with any admission, however appalling, so long as it's preceded by the words "to my shame."
... The self-accusatory prefix robs the listener of the right to disapprove ...
SANS "TO MY SHAME."
I used to exploit women because I couldn't cope with being alone ...
CORRECT RESPONSE. He didn't say "to my shame!" You bastard! You viscious selfish bastard.
It's like "Simon Says" for junkies. — Russell Brand

Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing. — Kevin Fowler

It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For — Mortimer J. Adler

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude. — James Van Praagh

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions. — Ellen Key

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. — Bertrand Russell

I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it — William Shakespeare

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. — Harry Mathews

Music, like the visual arts, is rooted in our experience of the natural world," said Schwartz. "It emulates our sound environment in the way that visual arts emulate the visual environment." In music we hear the echo of our basic sound making instrument-the vocal tract. This explanation for human music is simpler still than Pythagoras's mathematical equations: we like the sounds that are familiar to us-specifically, we like sounds that remind us of us. — Christine Kenneally

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East. — Donald Trump

He wanted to hide from himself, as though he were trying to run away from himself! Yes! It was really so.One may say more: Mr. Golyadkin did not want only to run away from himself, but to be obliterated, to cease to be, to return to dust — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw? — Ilsa J. Bick

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. — Claire Tomalin

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness. — Charlie Kimball