Shellacking Quotes

#1. How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or their sexuality - or anything else, really - is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?

Maggie Nelson

#2. Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.

John Podhoretz

#3. That's what we're trained to do.

Chesley Sullenberger

#4. He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Voltaire

#5. That's because superstition has it that the first person who gets up from a party of thirteen will die?"
"Precisely. I believe Agatha Christie even wrote a mystery about it.

David Baldacci

#6. Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering ... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

Robert Musil

#7. The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

Ludwig Von Mises

#8. Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

Robert Frost

#9. You do speak." It came out as an accusation.
"When there's someone around worth speaking to.

Shana Abe

#10. I had been reduced to jelly by a brassiere.

Rosen Trevithick

#11. The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn