Melmouth Quotes

#1. They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves (p. 223).
Melmouth, of the George Flock in Three Bags Full

Leonie Swann

#2. I said Justin Bieber looked like a little lesbian
and I stand by it: He's the daughter Cher wishes she'd had.

Joan Rivers

#3. You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#4. Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

Stephen Ambrose

#5. Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.

Jennifer Lawrence

#6. It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

John Lennon

#7. I am also concerned not to come off as shrill or preachy when what I really am is more like confused.

David Foster Wallace

#8. I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy -

August Wilson

#9. What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

Graham Greene

#10. and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. No one that close to me has ever died, much less someone as close as one of my sisters. A twin sister to be exact.

Colleen Hoover

#11. Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places.

Darren Hardy

#12. I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event ... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

Dan O'Brien

#13. If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

Chuck Klosterman

#14. The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter