Perceuse Quotes & Sayings

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel. — Maxwell Maltz

Do not become a mere recorder of facts, but try and penetrate the mystery of their origin. — Ivan Pavlov

Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation. — Jack Benny

religion attempts to influence our mind-set before we are tempted, by creating moral education and - let's not forget - guilt. — Dan Ariely

He reminded them of the Three Plagues, of the fact that people in nursing homes are dying of boredom, loneliness, and helplessness and that they wanted to find the cure for these afflictions. — Anonymous

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management. — Richard Grimes

Neither of them noticed Jane for a moment, which was for the best, as Jane looked like parts of her had been ripped up and flung into the wind.
While Hunter smiled at Savannah, little pieces of Jane fluttered down to the parking lot ...
She waded through the litter of her old self and climbed into the battered Taurus. — Janette Rallison

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book. — Julia Quinn