Hand Wringing Quotes

#1. When we focus on people and life instead of material possessions and mere wants, there's not much room for emotional hand-wringing. Instead, there's more space to weigh what we value in our lives and to acknowledge what really counts. Chapter 9 Simplicity Laura Ingalls in The Long Winter

Erin Blakemore

#2. Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

Gordon S. Wood

#3. For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.

Marian Keyes

#4. I'm sick of reading a bunch of hand-wringing bullshit intended to please your circle of friends, or assuage one's guilt of some kind or another. Take a position, have a point of view and fucking live or die with the consequences or don't write.

Kenyon Farrow

#5. There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.

Heather Brooke

#6. And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books ... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

Julianna Baggott

#7. A reformed bitch is going to cost a fortune in stamps.

Caitlin Moran

#8. I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.

Gary Shteyngart

#9. The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

Confucius

#10. My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

George H. W. Bush

#11. Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Margaret Mead

#12. 'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.

Olivia Newton-John

#13. Drain your drink, come on. You don't leave a full glass in a pub. Charles II outlawed it.

Harriet Evans

#14. He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors?

Daryl Gregory

#15. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything makes.

Stephenie Meyer

#16. A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.

Drake Bell

#17. I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

Bob Menendez

#18. Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

John Donne

#19. A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of labor. Tengo

Haruki Murakami