Asian Persuasion Sayings

#1. Rejection hurts so much because we take it as a damning judgement passed not merely on our physical appeal but on our entire selves, and by extension (at this stage we're crying into our pillow, as something by Bach or Leonard Cohen plays on the stereo) on our very right to exist. 2.

Alain De Botton

#2. Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Wendell Phillips

#3. In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Friedrich Schiller

#4. Hope offered, then denied. A particular cruelty.

Louise Penny

#5. If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

Phil Robertson

#6. Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Felix Dennis

#7. Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

Paulo Freire

#8. Suicide may be a choice, but not as much as it is expected when everything else fails.

Mark Brightlife

#9. Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

Molly Ivins

#10. They talked about each others' houses, and characters, and families
just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#11. Thy best of rest is sleep,
And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st
Thy death, which is no more.

William Shakespeare

#12. My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

Kenneth Chenault