Affirmance Quotes

#1. They fix attention, heedless of your pain,
With oaths like rivets forced into the brain;
And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout,
They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

William Cowper

#2. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

Munia Khan

#3. Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

Suzy Kassem

#4. A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. The human desire to experience union with others is rooted in the specific conditions of existence that characterize the human species and is one of the strongest motivators of human behavior.

Erich Fromm

#6. The old man moaned and maundered, murmured, muttered, mumbled odds of this and ends of that, bits and pieces, shreds and edges, full of ifs and whens and theres and thens, amounting in the end and all to six times less than nothing.

James Thurber

#7. Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

Robert E. Howard

#8. J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

Bill Cowher

#9. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

Drew Carey

#10. In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Cameron Crowe

#11. Being just a little cynical will make you a much safer optimist.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

Sophocles

#13. I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators.

Andrew Cuomo

#14. But the basic principle that we're gonna have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is gonna have to support some banks, that others that are not - not viable, essentially that we're gonna have to - do something with those assets.

Barack Obama

#15. Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition.

Laurie Nadel