Likability Trap Quotes

#1. Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

Al Franken

#2. Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

John Neff

#3. Not everything is about you.

Benedict Jacka

#4. I truly believe that God provides.

Katharine McPhee

#5. True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Eduardo Galeano

#7. The overall number of single women in America starts at a high of 34 percent in 1890, slides down one percent per decade, all the way to the bottom point of the V - 17 percent in 1960 - and then climbs back up and up, 2 percent per decade, to 53 percent in 2013.

Kate Bolick

#8. And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language.

Emily Croy Barker

#9. I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

Dennis Eckersley

#10. The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

Noam Chomsky

#11. There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

Alexandra Kleeman

#12. Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it ... is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

Paul Harvey

#13. Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#14. The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

Lynn Crilly

#15. No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all.

Catherine Ryan Hyde