Quandaries Define Quotes & Sayings

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States. — David Axelrod

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before. — Pico Iyer

I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move. — Pina Bausch

The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system. — Milton Friedman

He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. — Erin Hunter

No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what's being said around her. Nevermind if a man's mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he'll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You're a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers. — Tamora Pierce

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there. — Samuel Chadwick

When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I'd meet my own Juliet. I'd marry her and I would love her with the same passion and intensity as Romeo. The fact
that their marriage lasted fewer than three days before they both were dead
didn't seem to affect my fantasy. Even if they had lived, I don't think their
relationship could have survived. Let's face it, being that emotionally aflame, sexually charged, and transcendentally eloquent every single second can really start to grate on a person's nerves. However, if I could find someone to love just a fraction of the way that Montague loved his Capulet, then marrying her would be worth it. — Annabelle Gurwitch

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman. — Tamara Mellon

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing. — Liz Carpenter

And if he poked me in the back with a pen one more freaking time, I was going to throw him in front of an Arum. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us. — Peter Capaldi

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it. — Douglas Adams