Posturings Quotes

#1. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Carl Sagan

#2. And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?

Ray Bradbury

#3. Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

Charles Kennedy

#4. Where most people she knew were recognizably constant, Soter comprised a collection of posturings, guises, a composite of masks, so many that she had no idea if any one of them had ever been the true Soter, or if there had never been anything but masks.

Gregory Frost

#5. One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

Juanita M. Kreps

#6. Aw, you shouldn't judge a flower by who picket it.

J.M. Darhower

#7. Ketoacidosis is prevented by negative feedback. Ketone bodies inhibit fatty acid production and also promote release of insulin which, in turn, inhibits lipolysis.

Richard David Feinman

#8. The most deeply motivated people - not to mention those who are most productive and satisfied - hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselves. Motivation

Daniel H. Pink

#9. The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

Kate Millett

#10. Get a better job, Harve. Ask for a raise. Good Lord, we aren't living. We're existing!

Gil Brewer

#11. Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

Sydney J. Harris

#12. Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. Now it is clear that Israel needs a leadership that proceeds strongly toward peace, or else the extremist right will hijack the situation.

Hanan Ashrawi

#13. I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

Elizabeth Taylor

#14. Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Plautus

#15. A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those who did not,

Arianna Huffington

#16. Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

John Ortberg

#17. Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk!

Dave Mustaine

#18. I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

Colin Salmon

#19. Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

Irene Rosenfeld