Poufed Quotes & Sayings

Statin drugs are meant to lower cholesterol in your blood. But there is an asymmetry, and a severe one. One needs to treat fifty high risk persons for five years to avoid a single cardiovascular event. Statins can potentially harm people who are not very sick, for whom the benefits are either minimal or totally nonexistent. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. — Honore De Balzac

For days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by — William Peter Blatty

Open Everything' is everything
it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny. — Robert David Steele

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all. — Julia Lipnitskaya

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it. — Hugh Downs

Education doesn't determine how you earn, education determines how you spend. — Noam Chomsky

The way my mom dressed was one of my earliest inspirations, in those '80s suits with shoulder pads and things like that. For years, I ran away from that style. But now, all I want to do is shoulder pads and nipped-in waists and padded hips and peplums and poufed dresses. — Jason Wu

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false. — Philip Kerr

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness. — Andrei Sakharov

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — Rollo May

I've heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them."
Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food"
[ ... ]
"But the Refuge food is too cooperative," he grumbled. "How much blood do they think I can drink? — Nalini Singh

While other girls were blurry, displaying cracks or, at the very least, seams

ripped jeans, coffee-stained T-shirts, hair that poufed up in the rain

Sophia always looked sharp, clear, as if the resolution had been turned up on a microscope and angled straight at her, as if the money had formed a kind of shrink wrap that kept her protected from the normal destruction of the everyday. — Lauren Oliver

I come as one, but stand as 10,000. — Maya Angelou

We would rather have our employees running our business. — James Sinegal

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue. — Albert Camus