Thirteen Reasons Why Memorable Quotes & Sayings

So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at. — James Clavell

Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it. — Elizabeth Warren

... we stood there on the quiet sidewalk, stuck between mutiny and mediocrity — David Arnold

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la. — Maud Hart Lovelace

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that. — Woody Allen

In all governments accordingly, even in monarchies, the highest offices are generally possessed, and the whole detail of the administration conducted, by men who were educated in the middle and inferior ranks of life, who have been carried forward by their own industry and abilities, though loaded with the jealousy, and opposed by the resentment, of all those who were born their superiors, and to whom the great, after having regarded them first with contempt, and afterwards with envy, are at last contented to truckle with the same abject meanness with which they desire that the rest of mankind should behave to themselves. — Adam Smith

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come. — Jill Scott

In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless. — Dawna Markova

Dedicated selfless people shape the future — Kishore Bansal

A consultant solves other peoples problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems. — Charles Handy

I see every rejection simply as some form of incompatibility. Whether she thinks I'm a total creep, or she's crazy about me but we live on different continents, or she's in a horrible mood when I ask her out, or she thinks I'm cute but has different values and interests than me - whatever the reason, if a woman ever rejects me, it's because she's not compatible with me. It may be a permanent incompatibility. It may be a temporary incompatibility. But the point is that if she liked me enough, she'd be willing to work at making it happen with me. And if she doesn't, then that just means it's wrong person - or right person, wrong time. And that's fine. — Mark Manson