Talbots Online Quotes & Sayings

The leader is the organization's top strategist ... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there. — Bill Hybels

He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? — Joseph Conrad

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off! — Joel McHale

You fight to defend a lover, not to win one. If you do, it isn't love. — Jerry Springer

It wasn't that he was a Confederate. Everyone in Gatlin County was related to the wrong side in the War Between the States. We were used to that by now. It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena. Ethan Carter Wate hadn't, and I couldn't, either. — Kami Garcia

Anna held herself quiet, with effort. What Molly had said was pure spite: she was saying, I'm glad that you are going to be subjected to the pressures the rest of us have to face. Anna thought, I wish I hadn't become so conscious of everything, every little nuance. Once I wouldn't have noticed: now every conversation, every encounter with a person seems like crossing a mined field; and why can't I accept that one's closest friends at moments stick a knife in, deep, between the ribs? — Doris Lessing

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example. — Dorothea Dix

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You deserve better. You deserve to be adored, and you deserved to be fucked until you can't stand up. — Kitty French