Forgas Quotes

#1. Forgas and his colleagues have demonstrated diverse benefits of a sad mood. It can improve memory performance, reduce errors in judgment, make people slightly better at detecting deception in others, and foster more effective interpersonal strategies, such as increasing the politeness of requests.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#2. In the end, Alter and Forgas concluded the happier you are, the more likely you will be to seek out ways to delude yourself into maintaining your rosy outlook on life and your own abilities. Sad people, it seems, are more honest with themselves.

David McRaney

#3. When people ask me what it is that I want to achieve in life, I always tell them that I want to be able to make positive change in spite of all the issues that the world faces today.

Omar Al Busaidy

#4. I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.

Ray Winstone

#5. To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Jane Austen

#6. No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

#7. And always John, who is my own Gilbert Blythe, my real life Mr. Darcy, and the love of my life.

Lindsay Eland

#8. Once a Marine, always a Marine.

Katie Reus

#9. If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.

James Richardson

#10. There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

Joseph Livesey

#11. It matters not what language a man speaks; he holds a pen, he holds a plow, he holds a gun in exactly the same manner. We are all children of our tools.

Eli Brown

#12. When our children and grandchildren look back on this period, one question will overwhelm all the rest: Did we do everything in our power to fight and to win the war on terror? That's the fundamental question this generation faces.

George W. Bush

#13. I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

E.L. Doctorow

#14. But I don't ask him anything, because he's driving with that weird fake-happy look on his face, as if he's about to chop me up into little pieces and feed me to a tiger.

A.S. King

#15. The monk, Gregory the Great, tells how a nun, in her greed, ate a lettuce without first making the sign of the cross to protect herself against the evil spirits that hide between its leaves, and so she became possessed by a demon. Greetwell

Karen Maitland