Hectored Quotes

#1. There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

Paul Theroux

#2. The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan.

Chuck Hagel

#3. The next time someone chides you for using your intuition, inform them that you are just checking in with the 96 percent of the universe that can't be counted up, analyzed or measured.

Catherine Carrigan

#4. I wanted more people from my city to be able to have the kind of opportunity that I had.

Julian Castro

#5. Loneliness often fools us into believing everyone is bad.

R.K. Ryals

#6. God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

Khalil Gibran

#7. Sealed off from enchantment, the modern buffered self is also sealed off from significance, left to ruminate in a stew of its own ennui.

James K.A. Smith

#8. And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you're safe.

Don Winslow

#9. I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

Chuck Pfarrer

#10. We only radiate the inner self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

William James

#12. These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#13. I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. There is much sorrow, not only of the dramatic kind but also in the way that difficult economic circumstances wear people down, eroding them, preying on their weaknesses, until they do things that they themselves find hateful, until they are shadows of their best selves.

Teju Cole

#15. Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#16. It's like he has these moments where he just captures me in his snare and I can't see around me. Tunnel vision. I'll call it the Ian tunnel effect since it hinders me at the greatest of moments when I should be focused elsewhere.

Cyndi Goodgame