Sherman Alexie Quotes

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

Sherman Alexie

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• Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Fields
  • Definitions
  • Experts

• I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It's crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Definitions
  • Categories
  • Distrust

• As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Definitions

• Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Giving

• My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Journey
  • Horrible
  • Boredom

• I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Style
  • Confidence

• The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Science
  • Built
  • Definitions

• We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

  

  William Hague
  • Democracy
  • Humans
  • Authority

• Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Decision
  • Helping
  • Married

• Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Understanding
  • Audience

• No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

  

  Seth Godin
  • Change
  • Definitions

• When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Choices
  • Deserve
  • Adults

• To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.

  

  Vladimir Potanin
  • Company
  • Projects
  • Partners

• It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

  

  Bill Gaede
  • Objects
  • Definitions

• I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

  

  Collier Schorr
  • Black
  • Emotional
  • Term

• Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.

  

  Chris Pirillo
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Partners

• The standard is the same. Don't get me wrong, the main difference is the number of sparring partners. Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are the best coaches in the world in my opinion and in many other people's opinion but it really it comes down to the number of sparring partners. I go to my gym and I have 10 fighters fighting on the local level but when you go over there it's like 30 fighters all fighting in the UFC or other bigger shows. That's really the main thing; the numbers.

  

  Anthony Perosh
  • Numbers
  • Partners
  • Standard

• It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Support
  • Terrible
  • Democrats

• Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Mind
  • Prison
  • Sanctuary

• What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Home
  • Night
  • Scotland

• If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

  

  J. H. Hexter
  • History
  • Luxury
  • Necessity

• and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Definitions
  • Partners
  • Custer