Alex Minsky Quotes

#1. Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.

Joshua Harris

#2. Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.

Robin McKinley

#3. Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

John Irving

#4. Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

#5. When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me

Christina Rossetti

#6. We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.

Kelly Cutrone

#7. I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.

Pete Domenici

#8. For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

Bill Watterson

#9. As you can see, I keep my word," I call to the rest of the crowd. "Do not take advantage of my generosity, and I will not take advantage of your weakness.

Marie Lu

#10. In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

Frederick Lenz

#11. And then we were gone, cascading back to the future.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#12. I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other.

Mike Birbiglia

#13. To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

Dorothee Solle

#14. We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.

Anne Carson

#15. Was he leaving home, or going home?

Ursula K. Le Guin