Reciprocal Accountability Quotes & Sayings

Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients - old and wise. — Millicent Ashby

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Pigpen walks around the table and as he nears Violet, she stumbles back, but he's faster. With one long step, he engulfs Violet in a hug and lifts her into the air.
She slaps his shoulder, "Put me down, you fucking asshole."
"She's back!" Pigpen rocks her like she's a doll and then gently deposits he back on the ground. He places his hands on either side of her face, looks into her eyes with that crazy-ass smile on his face, then kisses the top of her head. "It's good to have you back, kid."
Violet smacks his hands off her face. "Get off me."
He winks. "Love you, too. — Katie McGarry

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands. — Danny Fox

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere. — Boyd Holbrook

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. — Clara Zetkin

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. — David Brin

Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. — James A. Michener

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died,
Freed the slaves so they put him on the five. — Too $hort

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy. — Cyril Connolly

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. — Lillian Hellman

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. — Dag Hammarskjold

We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals. — Wallace Stegner

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. — Peter Shaffer

It is also to choose to live more mindfully. It is to have direct and wholehearted participation in life: the taste and touch of actual things; the experience of the moment; the delight inherent in creative doing. Lose the possibilities of such experiences and a sense of boredom can begin its subtle but insidious invasion of the human heart. It is then that we most feel the need to fill the vacuum with a consoling substitute: another dress, another computer game or holiday. It is not acquisitiveness but boredom which can lead to regular and compulsory shopping - ' retail therapy' - as a relief from the lacuna of an unfulfilled life. My experience tells me that the — John Lane

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. — Rainer Maria Rilke