Grief Counselling Quotes

#1. She meant I was hungover. I had been slaughtered, legless, trolleyed, slashed, shredded, plastered, polluted, pissed. I thought, I do love my country's relationship with alcohol. How would I ever exist in the United States? I suppose I would have grief counselling instead. (77)

Peter Carey

#2. It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.

Peter Schiff

#3. I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

Mike Krzyzewski

#4. The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.

Harold Holzer

#5. When nothing is done, nothing is won!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Plato

#7. I am a Hobbit, like I said at the beginning of the book. That doesn't mean that at times, many times, I wasn't a Dwarf, an Orc, even a bit Gollum-ish or Wraith-ish. But deep down, what I want to be is a Hobbit. Do you?

Steve Bivans

#8. Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

William Shakespeare

#9. Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another.
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 73

Gilles Deleuze

#10. As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

Julius Erving

#11. If you respect yourself, you will respect others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. (...) life just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens... Stories solve this problem - as the critic Clive James once put it, 'Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.' This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends.

Paul Bloom

#13. A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod ...

Jodi Picoult

#14. Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Daniel Defoe

#15. Dreams are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

#16. I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

Nicolas Cage