Ting Toomey Quotes

#1. Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

Jo Bonner

#2. It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?

Mary Doria Russell

#3. Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Samuel Johnson

#4. I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

Verne Troyer

#5. Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

Hugh Prather

#6. If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris L. West

#7. Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are ...

Robert L. Bartley

#8. As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

Eberhard Weber

#9. God, an enormous darkness, hung looped over half her sky, an ever-present menace, a cloud waiting to break.

Sylvia Townsend Warner