The Bloody Chamber Marriage Quotes & Sayings

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me. — Steve Martin

I never really liked weightlifting because there is no problem solving, whereas when I am fighting, I am trying to solve a problem, so I don't think about being tired. I box, wrestle, do jujitsu, run up sand dunes; every single day is something different so that I am mentally engaged. That's what makes me want to train longer. — Ronda Rousey

The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite. — George Ainslie

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script. — George Michael

What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos ... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man ... — Robert M. Pirsig

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy. — Janet Napolitano

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics. — Thomas Jefferson

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time. — William Shatner

I realize now that tragedy spares no one; it just courts each of us differently. — Gwendolyn M. Plano

A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.
If only I could remember ... — Lynda Fisher

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction. — Christian De Duve

ALLOW THE SENSATIONS TO BE PRESENT, BUT DO NOT ACT ON THEM This is probably the hardest thing to do when you start using the Four Steps. When you refuse to give in to the content of your deceptive brain messages by not performing the action your brain is telling you to do, your Uh Oh Center fires even more intensely, which makes you feel extremely uncomfortable. You want to do virtually anything to get rid of those sensations, both physical and emotional, and know that simply following your deceptive brain messages will accomplish that task in the short term. The problem, as we all must learn the hard way over time, is that doing so will only fuel the negative messages and further entrench the maladaptive circuits ever more powerfully into your brain. Said another way, short-term relief rapidly causes more pain and suffering, not less. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

No step is a safe one, so it's safer to take none at all. — Laura Wiess

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. — Criss Jami