Wrong End Of The Stick Quotes

#1. It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight with it.

Peter Ackroyd

#2. I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.

Beverly Engel

#4. Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.

Nina Easton

#5. I don't think I'm destined for love.

Michaela MacColl

#6. One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#7. My great-great-great-grandmother

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

Otto Schily

#9. There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Haruki Murakami

#11. A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Joan Rivers

#12. That's it," she said, balling her hands in fists. "I'm not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.

Tessa Dare

#13. The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. Blaze? What kind of name is that? It sounds like a male stripper.

J.L. Weil

#15. The greatest thing about speaking the truth is that you never have to remember what you said." -Judge Judy

Benjamin D. Cox

#16. The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.

Mona Sutphen