Quotes & Sayings About Rising Above Gossip

I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years. — Charles De Lint

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality. — Vaclav Havel

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration. — Al Franken

A personal revolution is the consequence of confronting self - as is. — T.F. Hodge

Most give
way
leaving
empty spaces
where people should
be. — Charles Bukowski

This whole kissing process was turning out to be far more complicated and stressful than I'd thought it would be. — W. Bruce Cameron

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people! — Mary Shelley

A broader danger of unverifiable beliefs is the temptation to defend them by violent means. People become wedded to their beliefs, because the validity of those beliefs reflects on their competence, commends them as authorities, and rationalizes their mandate to lead. Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali was the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. — Steven Pinker

I come from a background where money has never been an issue. — Ranbir Kapoor

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target. — Tyler Drumheller

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending. — Plotinus

Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I'd spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn't sold that talking did a whole heck of a lot except let everyone else know what was going on inside your head. It's not like talking ever made anything go away. — Ilsa J. Bick