Tuxedoed Annoying Quotes & Sayings

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. — Christopher Hitchens

If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost ... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts ... for they have already been given to another. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you. — Donald Rumsfeld

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much — Stephen King

The idea behind a stool transplant is to "reseed the lawn," so to speak. After exposure to weeks or months of antibiotics (including Vanco) the normal bowel flora - the organisms in your colon that help prevent infection - is weakened. They simply can't keep C. diff out. In other words, the normal barrier function of the colonic flora is gone, and C. diff gets right back in. So putting in some normal flora from a healthy donor is like reseeding the lawn - it restores the barrier. When that happens, C. diff cannot get back in, and the infection is cured. — J. Thomas LaMont

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter. — Kristin Hannah

General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years. — Harlow Curtice

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic. — Lorraine Toussaint

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute. — Nicola Sturgeon

Mutual understanding can never be attained by "communications down," can never be created by talking. It can result only from "communications up." It requires both the superior's willingness to listen and a tool especially designed to make lower managers heard. — Peter F. Drucker

The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary. — Robert G. Allen

The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call. — Arthur Cleveland Bent