Unsnapping Quotes & Sayings

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds. — Thomas A Kempis

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil. — Colin Powell

If they play dirty, then you play dirty. — Lawrence Taylor

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there. — George Takei

The clearer you are about why you want to accomplish a goal, the easier it will be to figure how to accomplish it. — John Fairclough

Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music. — John Mellencamp

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets. — Jessa Crispin

You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization. — Sudhir Kakar

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing. — Brian K. Vaughan

Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey, but also its own raging heart. — Unknown

I don't want to be so confident in myself. — Robert Downey Jr.

What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues. — Joycelyn Elders