Reconsidering Quotes

#1. Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

John Dalton

#2. As I began reconsidering my recently adopted "single forever" mantra,

Scott Hildreth

#3. The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

Jeff Bezos

#4. Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

Sherry Turkle

#5. There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

Norma McCorvey

#6. Why must women wake up and paint their faces? Who came up with this idea? What's wrong with washing and moisturizing? So, if you care to wear make-up, go right ahead. No one's stopping you. I only suggest reconsidering. Is it totally necessary?

Ellen DeGeneres

#7. Nothing offers better public relations fodder than something you can rescue and love intensively for a month and then be filmed burying at a lavish funeral.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center. But that does not mean that no other countries exist.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. Over the years in prison, when I have been by myself, as I am a good deal of the time, I have closed my eyes and turned my head towards the sun, and I have seen red and orange that were like the brightness of those quilts.

Margaret Atwood

#10. We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.

Fred Frith

#11. Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Jane Rule

#12. Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

Fulton J. Sheen

#13. In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

Dana Gioia