Softeners Quotes

#1. Smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face.

Peter Hedges

#2. A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

William Cobbett

#3. If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day - chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins - are results of manufactured habits.

Charles Duhigg

#4. Many of our problems come from having too much: rapid technological disruption, junk food, traditions that tell us the way we're supposed to live our lives. We're soft, entitled, and scared of conflict. Great times are great softeners. Abundance can be its own obstacle, as many people can attest.

Ryan Holiday

#5. Great times are great softeners

Ryan Holiday

#6. Find some people you give a shit about. Who care about you. Who are smarter than you are. Find a woman. Who laughs at you. Who'll kick your ass out of the house. You find that woman and she's the same woman who'll throw herself in front of a truck for you? Well, then you're somewhere.

Alexander Maksik

#7. I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

Otto Von Bismarck

#9. I think it should be obvious by now that I'm not necessarily interested in reality.

Elle Lothlorien

#10. The wind was picking up, and the Scarecrow shivered.

Gregory Maguire

#11. If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

Chellis Glendinning

#12. If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I'd say it's the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

Harvey MacKay

#13. madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy)

Marcel Proust