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Personality Quotes (page 157)

A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford) Rhonda Byrne
Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez and the encoraching darkness. Things were happening quickly; this person he had never met before today was fast becoming a kind of lifeline for him. Michael Crichton
Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet? two clarinets. Ambrose Bierce
Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment... Ralph Nader
Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the... Jodi Picoult
Dale Carnegie quote: "Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks..."
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. Dale Carnegie
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. Robert M. Pirsig
He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No more baffling, exasperating soldier ever wore a uniform. Flamboyant, imperious, and apocalyptic, he carried the plumage of a flamingo, could not acknowledge errors, and tried to cover up his mistakes with sly, childish tricks. Yet he was also endowed with great personal charm, a will of iron, and a... William Manchester
Oliver Cromwell quote: "Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would..."
Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. Oliver Cromwell
Ram Dass quote: "When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking..."
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. Ram Dass
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. Zelda Fitzgerald
Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. Terry Goodkind
S. E. Hinton quote: "the person in this picture is really me."
the person in this picture is really me. S. E. Hinton
I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion. Jennifer Weiner

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