Missaying Sayings

#1. I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy and wanted to eat them all the more

Isaac Marion

#2. I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

Roxane Gay

#3. The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

J. Boone

#4. To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy's father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he felt at his mother's reputation for unchastity.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. How is it that a solid work ethic is not an adequate defense against extreme poverty?

Kathryn Edin

#6. One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. I might have hasked a question ... , except that 1. I didn't know what it was, and 2. I didn't care to learn, and 3. I never really excelled in small talk.

John Green

#8. Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.

Sylvia Day

#9. We all have a divine nature, and we have a thirst to become one with that divinity. That divinity lets us find meaning in life event at the pinnacle of happiness, lets us weep for the pain and sorrow of others, and lets us dream of a more beautiful world. (p. 154)

Ilchi Lee

#10. The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Max McKeown

#11. It's so old, I think when it opened, Burger King was still a prince.

James Patterson

#12. In order to burn out, a person needs to have been on fire at one time.

Ayala Pines

#13. It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

Jean Stafford