Gallner Patterman Quotes

#1. This, it seems to me, is the lesson of the Bible: this affirmation of the importance of reflection, and of revision, enough revision to do away with the tired, old, even faulty laws.

Chinelo Okparanta

#2. My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

Rosalynn Carter

#3. To change somebody's behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person's outstanding characteristics.

Dale Carnegie

#4. I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

Alfred Hitchcock

#5. The Sabres were great planes. Except they dropped napalm.

Haruki Murakami

#6. The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

Nate Silver

#7. When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.

Ron Kaufman

#8. I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Thom Yorke

#9. As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

Jack Antonoff

#10. Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Jeanette Winterson