Quotes About Pickings

#1. Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

Henry Makow

#2. To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")

Hanif Kureishi

#3. In their white-daisy bouquet of slim pickings, they cast out all the yellow chrysanthemums, and anything brown was considered wilted.

Alice Pung

#4. I obsess and fantasize about whatever attractive men may be on the flight. Though these days the pickings are lean. No one flies regularly anymore but fugly, bland businessmen, and hideous families with no-neck monsters for children.

Vaginal Davis

#5. As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Carrie Fisher

#6. The psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.

David Foster Wallace

#7. The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

Shirley Maclaine

#8. The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

Timothy Ferriss

#9. When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#10. We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.

Morris L. West

#11. And I'm glad to see that all three clients are male. Not that the females can't be corrupted, I've just always found the males more amenable to temptation. The males have always had all the power, so that does much to explain it. As they say: Easy pickings.

Geoffrey Wood

#12. Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#13. the well-paid pickings for PhD Program Dropouts Who Only Have Experience Working in Academia were basically nonexistent

Sarah Kuhn

#14. Where Did the Universe Come From?

Anonymous

#15. Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

Walter Russell Mead

#16. God, he asserted, was not contained in any Book, but was a Voice, which every human being could hear (and which most of us chose to ignore). The common name of that voice was Conscience; but it was a God by any reasonable definition, Stepney claimed.

Robert Charles Wilson

#17. When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn't see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a servant of God and a soldier of the cross, a great threat to his kingdom.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#18. It occurred to me that we were the same, in a way. Both of us treading water, pushing against forces we couldn't control.

Heather Demetrios

#19. I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.

Ana Ortiz

#20. If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. And had a face like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle ...

Terry Pratchett

#22. Art without life is a poor affair.

Henry James

#23. For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Tom Conrad

#24. I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

Dave Gahan

#25. That sounds dangerous,'said Jean.
'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.'
'We?'
'We.

Scott Lynch

#26. Are you exciting to be with ... or are you boring like the rest of them?

Richard Finney

#27. Books don't just go with you, they take you where you've never been.

Anonymous

#28. We can get closer to the truth by negative instances, not by verification! It

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#29. Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

Dolly Parton

#30. I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

Li Bingbing