“no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or you can love them for the flaws they try to correct. ”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
“People talk whether you're in school or not, but it doesn't dictate anything. You choose how much you allow people to rule you.”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
“In my opinion, no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some mainly qualitites.”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
“I swallow hard, wondering how in the hell I'm going to be able to fit into any of these clothes. I've seen his models on TV. They eat air for breakfast and ice for lunch. There's no way.”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
“Before I got here, I thought a size four was a good size. And then I saw the natives wearing a size negative-triple-zero, or something crazy like that.”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
“have to tell him that all three times we had sex were terrible. Personally, I learned sex is highly overrated. I see no point in reliving the worst six minutes of my life... total. I don't get the appeal. Maybe”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
“he expects me to elaborate. Boundaries. These damn people need boundaries. "So no boyfriend, but you're not a virgin?" he prods, seeming to delight”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
“like this conversation. Too many memories are attached to the questions he's asking.”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
“A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg
“Your friend is convinced she is unlovable, unreachable. Depression can do that to a person. She thinks no one can understand her. She ignores all evidence to the contrary, and it has led her to make some very tragic decisions.”
― Sarah Fine, quote from Sanctum
“thought then that decent, intelligent, and experienced managers would automatically make rational business decisions. But I learned over time that isn’t so. Instead, rationality frequently wilts when the institutional imperative comes into play. For example: (1) As if governed by Newton’s First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.”
― Warren Buffett, quote from The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
“he followed the ball down to the other end of the court, stopped, stared at me with contempt, and then did the strangest thing.
He winked. Like he was flicking me off with his eyelid.”
― Perry Moore, quote from Hero
“We don’t rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses.”
― Peter James, quote from Dead Simple
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