Poky Quotes

#1. The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;
The books that people talk about we never can recall;
And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Carolyn Wells

#2. I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy, and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay home and knit like a poky old woman (Josephine)

Louisa May Alcott

#3. We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little 'sins' to the level of cosmic significance!

Richard Dawkins

#4. When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.

Gary W. Keller

#5. If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

Jerry Hall

#6. The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes.

St. Clair McKelway

#7. We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.

Lena Williams

#8. The longer I do this job, the less I like people. The species, of course," he adds grimly. "There are individuals I like just fine.

Sara Gruen

#9. Oh? And what was I to say? I beg your pardon, Lord Wriothesly, but your wife seems to have acquired a distinct liking for my husband's cock. Would you mind kindly retrieving her to your own bed?

Ashley March

#10. Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify

Francine Prose

#11. Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

Mike Johanns

#12. A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

Edmund Randolph

#13. I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Vidal Sassoon

#14. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.

Adolf Hitler

#15. Some people are like branches. They sway away even with a gentle breeze. Others, the ones like roots, can only be shaken if there is a hurricane.

Stay with latter - they keep the relationship stable. And, do remember not to stir the hurricane by lies or deceit.
#Stability

Saru Singhal