Ontent Quotes

#1. [C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.

John Ralston Saul

#2. You can't possibly be thinking of sending him home! He can barely walk." Meg's smile began to slip. Ambulance crews were queuing almost out the door, and all this lad needed was a stat dose of Man-the-Fuck-Up.

Cari Hunter

#3. Social intelligence is a function of culture. In other words, the behaviours and characteristics one culture considers socially intelligent are not necessarily deemed socially intelligent by another. (Dong, Koper & Collaco 2008, 165). Social intelligence is something that we learn

Anonymous

#4. You cannot keep all men confined all the time," Abraham said, "not without creating a strong prison. So instead you allow some measure of freedom for those who really, really want it. That way, they do not become rebels. If you do it right.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

Eli Roth

#6. I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

Larisa Oleynik

#7. The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

Richard Simmons

#8. Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

Edmar Mednis

#9. Life never forgives weaknesses.

Adolf Hitler

#10. Only the Truth can set you free.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Did anybody tell you that you're a few french fries short of a Happy Meal?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#12. While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

Jean Little

#13. Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless.

Salman Rushdie

#14. Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. If, at the office or in different exchanges in daily living, you have to spend time with people who are at lower power levels, then you have to be aware of that and keep your awareness very much within.

Frederick Lenz