Wakamatsu Colony Quotes & Sayings

What should worry us is not the number of people who oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so. We should therefore divert our attention away from the presence of unpopularity to the explanations for it. It may be frightening to hear that a high proportion of a community holds us to be wrong, but before abandoning our position, we should consider the method by which their conclusions have been reached. It is the soundness of their method of thinking that should determine the weight we give to their disapproval. We seem afflicted by the opposite tendency: to listen to everyone, to be upset by every unkind word and sarcastic observation. We fail to ask ourselves the cardinal and most consoling question: on what basis has this dark censure been made? We treat with equal seriousness the objections of the critic who has thought rigorously and honestly and those of the critic who has acted out of misanthropy and envy. — Alain De Botton

Horror movie is a great date movie. For dates ... maybe grab on to the guy. I just think people love a good scare. — Tara Reid

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking. — Christopher Plummer

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ... — Barbara Mertz

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's just soy juice. — Lewis Black

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. — Richard Sibbes

Real Evolution is a state of consciousness. To really and truly evolve, means to align with the truth; to align with something other than the illusion and delusion of the ego mind and lower states of consciousness. — Arielle Hecht

Functional prices are those that encourage the largest volume of production and the largest volume of sales. Functional wages are those that tend to bring about the highest volume of employment and the largest real payrolls. — Henry Hazlitt

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. — H.L. Mencken

Styles are tailor made to different situations. Different leaders must have their own styles and these styles must be able to adapt to different people and situations. — John Ng

Christ, woman, were you ever going to say anything?"
He grabbed her by the wrist and tugged her down the hall to
the single bathroom. "Get out of that shirt. — Aliyah Burke

You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person. — Pete Cashmore