quotes about Laconic

“Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.”

“If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.”

“Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.”

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.”

Source : "Q & A: 'Joe the Plumber'". Interview by Sarah Pulliam, Christianity Today, May 2009.

“After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.”

Source : "Arthur Smith" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.

“More important than the food pairing is the person with whom you drink the wine.”

“I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.”

“There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.”

Source : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

“No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.”