I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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Related Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside ... RAINBOW ROWELL [And while the audience waited patiently for what turned out to be a rather perfunctory] Something t... BONNIE RAITT To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate e... UGO BETTI I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... We were created with the ability and the inclination to admire beauty. We should, however, do our be... RON BRACKIN If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office. GEORGE A. ROMERO I think of Jered as another regular guy. He was highly sought-after coming out of college. On the fi... JASON VARGAS Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. J. K. ROWLING Learn how to learn before you learn; then learn to love before you love MUNIA KHAN If I had an ear 2 confide in I would cry among my treasured friends But who do u know that... TUPAC SHAKUR The best love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your fai... SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. 511I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist. J.R. WARD The press seems to love pitting women against each other. JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect ea... CHAKA KHAN If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect ch... SHEL SILVERSTEIN If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerat... HIPPOLYTE TAINE It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly info... P.D. JAMES I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important. JEFF OLSON There is no one right way. Just figure out what works for you! LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'... AYN RAND Gillian and I have a brother/sister relationship. If you work with someone daily for twelve hours, t... DAVID DUCHOVNY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day. SUSAN ANTON In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama HARPER LEE Don't just read to read. Read to understand. JILL TELFORD I will be a teacher as well as a coach and will try to teach kids how important a good work ethic is... BRANDON COMBS what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH However, with babies this premature and this small, the pendulum can swing the other way and back ag... LEONARD WEISMAN Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH In the past we've focused on putting more features in, and now the pendulum has to swing the other w... CHARLES STEVENS The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We... GARY F EVANS... We've been watching each other play for years now. It would be cool to go against each other and see... JAKE WOODS We think that the best way to keep calm and cool and dignified is to look at each other and talk to ... TRENT LOTT Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. IRVIN D. YALOM Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Life is learning process. We must keep learning. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget. MANDY HALE Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang... JAMES CLAVELL Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY We're still trying to figure out each other. We need to learn how to play with each other. It's goin... PEJA STOJAKOVIC The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike. GEORGE ELIOT Life is given. Success is not. That's exactly why many people do not succeed, because the path isn't... NICO DEAN FULGENZI That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p... JANE BENNETT Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN By giving yourself less time, you'll work faster, concentrate more intensely, and perform at peak ef... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Often our biggest distractions are not external, but come from within. Get out of your own way! MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things ... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't ... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Your ability to sustain focus depends on how enjoyable and productive it is. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Find your true passion. Tap into the endless inspiration & energy it provides. Your focus will o... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus can become an obsession... But your ability to sustain the drive to focus will depend upon how... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise. LORII MYERS Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND
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My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spi... GILLIAN FLYNN I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbin... GILLIAN FLYNN I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s becau... GILLIAN FLYNN I'm definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow. GILLIAN ZINSER I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-... GILLIAN JACOBS A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics. GILLIAN JACOBS Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman's net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms... GILLIAN DUCE Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars. GILLIAN DUCE I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that wa... 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