Secret Liking Quotes & Sayings

Grinning to himself, Blue went out the door pulling out on his T-shirt. So sue him, he had changed his mind, but he sure wasn't going to quite admit it. She'd laugh like a hyena, and he had some pride. He found his hat, made sure to clean up Roy's kitchen, and went out to see to the horses. God, had he ever had so much fun in a relationship before? Most of them had been just about sex, and he and Jenna still hadn't even done that.
Maybe that was the secret. Liking someone first and then realizing you wanted to make love to them made a lot more sense. Blue put on his hat. And he would be making love with Jenna, he was damned sure about that. Sometimes even a Marine had to reassess his priorities.
44% — Kate Pearce

The children were watched through a one-way mirror, and the film that shows their behavior during the waiting time always has the audience roaring in laughter. About half the children managed the feat of waiting for 15 minutes, mainly by keeping their attention away from the tempting reward. Ten or fifteen years later, a large gap had opened between those who had resisted temptation and those who had not. The resisters had higher measures of executive control in cognitive tasks, and especially the ability to reallocate their attention effectively. As young adults, they were less likely to take drugs. A significant difference in intellectual aptitude emerged: the children who had shown more self-control as four-year-olds had substantially higher scores on tests of intelligence. — Daniel Kahneman

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. — Jonathan Stroud

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony. — F. Paul Wilson

The Lord is my Saviour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my
mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger. — Mahatma Gandhi

That is the secret of happiness and virtue
liking what you've got to do. — Aldous Huxley

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character. — Horace Greeley

It is a little-known but significant fact that no president has appeared more times in Superman comic books than JFK. He was even entrusted with Superman's secret identity and once pretended to be Clark Kent so as to prevent it from being exposed. When Supergirl debuted as a character, she was formally presented to the Kennedys. (Not surprisingly, the president took an immediate liking to her.) In a special issue dedicated to getting American youth to become physically fit - just like the astronaut 'Colonel Glenn' - Kennedy enlists Superman on a mission to close 'the muscle gap'. — Jonah Goldberg

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness. — J.M. Barrie

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience. — Christopher Paolini

Nd I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren't funny. — Curtis Sittenfeld

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be. — Chelsea Hobbs

Guilt is such a weird feeling, a combination of sad and sick that I was getting too used to feeling. — Rachel Hawkins

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always. — Geneen Roth

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. — J.M. Barrie

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. — Susan Neiman

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there. — Marty Rubin

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do. — J.M. Coetzee

It is the closest place to the stars on Earth. (Kalkan) — Herodotus