Placaters Quotes & Sayings

People think if you have money, it'll fix the problems, but it creates different ones. — Gabriel Iglesias

The long and painstakingly detailed discussions seemed to me nothing more than the incessant nattering of toads in a water filled ditch and of no greater consequence. — Stephen R. Lawhead

It would all be fine. Darcy could handle any man, living ...
Or dead. — Heather Graham

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. — Paula Cole

Devin wondered how often men did what they did, made the choices of their lives, for reasons that were clean and uncomplicated and easily understood as they were happening — Guy Gavriel Kay

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top. — John Naisbitt

But we are fencing. Either he talks or I will. I know it, I can feel speech backing up inside me, it's so long since I've really talked with anyone.
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And if I talk to him I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself. I don't want him to know too much. — Margaret Atwood

It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part
time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection. — Gail Caldwell

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject. — Tim Hunt

To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure. — Stefan Molyneux

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. — Konrad Lorenz

During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress. — Iqbal Quadir

I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels. — Dave Barry

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday" ought to be as unnecessary as a "Reality of Gravity Sunday. — Russell D. Moore

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I walked in, loosened his soul, and carried it gently away. — Markus Zusak