Untoward Side Quotes & Sayings

Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen. — Daniel Kahneman

Epictetus would reject this manner of dealing with insults as being woefully counterproductive. He would point out, to begin with, that the political correctness movement has some untoward side effects. One is that the process of protecting disadvantaged individuals from insults will tend to make them hypersensitive to insults: They will, as a result, feel the sting not only of direct insults but of implied insults as well. — William B. Irvine

The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound). — Georges St-Pierre

Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity. — Elijah Muhammad

Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame — Robert Mondavi

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!! — Napoleon Bonaparte

Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you. — Douglas Adams

The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings. — Allen Grossman

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. — LaToya Jackson

Where there's possibility there is also hope. — Gareth P. Jones

Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible. — Melody Beattie

The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path. — Wadah Khanfar