The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
RONALD REAGANTo take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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Poisoned food will look like nourishment to someone who is starving. The same principle applies to abusive relationships.
ISABEL ROCIO -
I’ve closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn’t want to hurt again, I didn’t want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don’t need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.
BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN -
It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
KAREENA KAPOOR -
I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
ZIGGY MARLEY -
Give me an authentic woman, and I’m happy.
BRADLEY COOPER -
My throat burns with the words left unspoken, air hangs still and silence hides the words you long to hear – stay.
M.K. STANDBY -
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
When a girl cries over a guy, she really loves him. When a guy cries over a girl, he will never love another girl like her.
LIL WAYNE -
When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY -
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Being awesome makes me hungry.
BARRY GOLDBERG -
I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.
BILLY THE KID -
I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn’t understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.
ADAM REX -
All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these – if they get the right ones, they’re lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they’re unlucky.
BERRY GORDY -
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKER







