Sproule And Associates Quotes & Sayings

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people, — John Connolly

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. — William Hazlitt

Would you really want to live in a world where everyone looked, acted and thought exactly as you do? — Robin S. Sharma

An ounce of love is greater than a ton of passion. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change. — Ai-jen Poo

The best of us would rather be popular than right. — Mark Twain

Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into exact sciences. But by patiently searching for facts and patterns and calmly analyzing the economic, social, and political mechanisms that might explain them, it can inform democratic debate and focus attention on the right questions. It can help to redefine the terms of debate, unmask certain preconceived or fraudulent notions, and subject all positions to constant critical scrutiny. In my view, this is the role that intellectuals, including social scientists, should play, as citizens like any other but with the good fortune to have more time than others to devote themselves to study (and even to be paid for it - a signal privilege). — Thomas Piketty

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead. — Jane Smiley

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said. — Don DeLillo

Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann had lived through a series of (almost certainly unconsummated) relationships with young men. — Philip Kitcher

My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me. — Alison Moyet

Perhaps there was, in the dim past, a communistic society, when the family was the only state, and pasturage or simple tillage the only form of life. But "in a more divided state of society," where the division of labor into unequally important functions elicits and enlarges the natural inequality of men, communism breaks down because it provides no adequate incentive for the exertion of superior abilities. The stimulus of gain is necessary to arduous work; and the stimulus of ownership is necessary to proper industry, husbandry and care. — Will Durant

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them. — Anna Kendrick

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much. — Brad Pitt