Not Being Considered Or Invited Quotes

#1. At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

Geoffrey Canada

#2. As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

Greg Cootsona

#3. Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

Caleb Cushing

#4. There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies!

Emily Dickinson

#5. I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Larry Hagman

#6. But to call it looking was like calling an eighteen-course feast a snack.

Courtney Milan

#7. While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.

Stephanie Zacharek

#8. People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

Edward Norton

#9. In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

Jacky Ickx

#10. If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous.

Nirmala Srivastava

#11. All men press, one way or another," she said with mock severity.
"They're still keeping to their book then?"
Denna's expression grew rueful and she sighed. "I used to hope they'd disregard the book with age. Instead I've found they've merely turned a page.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

Philip Zimbardo

#13. The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Salvador Dali

#14. If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you've lived it twice.

Michael J. Fox

#15. Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.

Adyashanti