Unacknowledged Cruelty Quotes

#1. You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.

Guy Kawasaki

#2. The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.

Anita Brookner

#3. Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Andrew Cohen

#5. Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.

Hilary Mantel

#6. There must be something deep within our memory as a species that is pleased by being able to look at what is making us warm.

Roger Ebert

#7. The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

Dov Davidoff

#8. More children will live through their parents' bankruptcy than will live through their parents' divorce.

Christine K. Jahnke

#9. A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#10. ~Garbage in, garbage out~

Mireille Guiliano

#11. The universe had been treating her with great sarcasm lately.

Joanna Bourne