Togglesprint Quotes & Sayings

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all. — Colin Firth

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value. — Ann Radcliffe

I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economy. — Greg Mankiw

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them. — Mark Allen Smith

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious. — Bruce Springsteen

There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African. — Jason W Clay

I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly. — Justine Larbalestier

Soon I will sleep, and my brain will begin to delete everything. Tomorrow I will go through it all again. — S.J. Watson

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer. — Abbie Cobb

It is better to be polite than rude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You're disgusting when you eat," Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. "It's like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk. — James Dashner

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain. — Milan Kundera

Being abandoned through the neglect of our developmental dependency needs is the major factor in becoming an adult child. We grow up; we look like adults. We walk and talk like adults, but beneath the surface is a little child who feels empty and needy, a child whose needs are insatiable because he has a child's needs in an adult body. This insatiable child is the core of all compulsive/addictive behavior. — John Bradshaw

These days, everybody is supposed to be so intelligent: 'Isn't it terrible about Nixon getting elected?' 'Did you hear about the earthquake in Peru?' And you're supposed to have all the answers. But when it gets down to the nitty-gritty, like, 'What is bugging you, mister? Why can't you make it with your wife? Why do you lie awake all night staring at the ceiling? Why, why, why do you refuse to recognize you have problems and deal with them?'
The answer is that people have forgotten how to relate or respond. In this day of mass communications and instant communications, there is no communication between people. Instead it's long-winded stories or hostile bits, or laughter. But nobody's really laughing. It's more an hysterical, joyless kind of sound.
Translation: 'I am here and I don't know why. — John Cassavetes