Pollyannish Quotes & Sayings

The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life. — Steven Redhead

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person. — Sai Baba

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The man who does the greatest harm is the man who does nothing at all. — Galen Beckett

There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening. — Sarah Stillman

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy. — David Lange

I'm just a guy who wears TOMS. It's the sad truth. — Ryan Eggold

I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth. — Dennis C. Blair

Evil knows evil. — Zachary Smith

Then idiots talk ... of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce! ... But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy. — Charles Dickens

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life. — Douglas Coupland

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! — Mark Twain