Presoaked Quotes & Sayings

It is a paradox. The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them. — Susan Jeffers

During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don't want you to see. (p. 4) — Carol Rifka Brunt

Good made the powerful point that there's a vast difference between how we think about the term failure and how we think about the people and organizations brave enough to share their failures for the purpose of learning and growing. To pretend that we can get to helping, generous, and brave without navigating through tough emotions like desperation, shame, and panic is a profoundly dangerous and misguided assumption. — Brene Brown

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: Are you a man or a woman? — Leslie Feinberg

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat. — Liev Schreiber

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary. — Camilla Belle

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other. — Jonathan Rauch

It's often your deepest pain that brings out the best of out of you — Thabiso Monkoe

Dogs are joiners; if they were guys, their idea of a good time would be to attend an Elks luncheon ... — Nicole Hollander

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. — J. Donald Walters