Preoccupi Quotes & Sayings

These days, shame is emerging from the shadows and beginning to have its own identity. For example, if you talk about guilt to people under thirty, you often get blank stares. But if you talk about "worthless," "failure," or "shame," they feel as if you have deciphered the core of their being. For them, shame is arguably the human problem. If the next generation is talking about it, that's a good sign, in the sense that shame may soon receive the attention it deserves. Meanwhile, you won't hear about it on the national news nor even in many Sunday sermons. It's hard to know how to speak about the unspeakable. You don't mention shameful things in polite conversation. — Edward T. Welch

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse. — W. H. Auden

When I'm competing, I need to be strong. — Ashley Wagner

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long. — Sloan Wilson

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. — J. Michael Straczynski

The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers. — Theodore Roosevelt

I think I've actually been saying from the beginning, I think Paulie [Calafiore] has a good shot. That's the only one I'll say right now and on the girls' end, I'd say Michelle [Meyers]. — Allison Grodner

Don't be a passive partner. This relationship is not something that's happening to to you. We are the drivers here. You're pretending that you just can't resist me, so you're letting it happen. I need more from you. — R.K. Lilley

I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out. — George Carlin

When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired. — Charles Baxter

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT — Julia Cameron

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom. — Elizabeth George