"While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives."

-- Phillip Adams

#Leadership Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
“[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully lied to us. This is the real story, and it reveals, once again, the character and mentality of this entire administration, for Gruber was speaking not merely for himself but about the entire administration, beginning with Obama.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage
“When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.”
“I know several couples who experienced adultery in their marriages, but because in each case there was a wife who was willing to pray and a husband open to allowing God to change and restore him, the marriages are still intact and successful today.Â Only prayer, a submitted heart, and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit can work those kinds of miracles.”
“I'm a true believer in working hard and partying hard. I'm fortunate to be one of those people who can have just as much fun partying without alcohol.”
“He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.”

Source : Karen Chance, Marjorie M. Liu, Yasmine Galenorn, Eileen Wilks (2010). “Inked”, p.133, Penguin
“I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.”
“If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.”

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