"As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him."

-- Rex Stout

#Guy Quotes #Unexpected Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.”
“What makes us threaten the things we want most?”

Source : Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.98, Vintage
“How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?”
“I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)”
“To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that's going to have a positive impact.”

Source : Source: m.motherjones.com
“...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.”
“Iâ€™ve seen all I need to. Iâ€™m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.”
“We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up?”

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