"Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Decision Quotes #Littles Quotes #Toss Quotes

“Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature.”
“It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?”
“Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.”
“Acorns were good until bread was found.”
“Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.”
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

Source : Margaret Mitchell (1936). “Gone with the wind”, Avon Books
“Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.”
“You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.”

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