Adele Givens Quotes

#1. Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

Jimenez Lai

#3. It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.

Christy Hall

#4. The military is already sexually integrated.

Elizabeth Edwards

#5. Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Norman G. Finkelstein

#6. That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

Magha

#7. Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.

Russell Crowe

#8. We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

Pema Chodron

#9. The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. I don't trick." he replied, his voice huffy. "I wheedle and cajole. Occasionally I manipulate, but I'm always very sneaky about i, so you wouldn't know it was happening until it was far too late.

Cameron Dokey

#11. When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better
her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

Virginia Woolf

#12. Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton