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| 9b9170e | There are times when eye contact can move to the dark side and become creepy, hostile, rude, or condescending. When it is overused or made for the wrong reasons, eye contact can make others feel uncomfortable and leave a terrible impression . . . * obsessive staring * mocking * too much intensity * inappropriate focus * averting eyes * obvious contempt * gawking, ogling * casting the "evil eye" * over-watching * intimidating * unwelcome.. | body-language-quotes communication-skills eye-contact-quotes law-of-attraction-quotes mirroring motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young reciprocity relationship-quotes | Susan C. Young | |
| b211f54 | When speakers make eye contact with an audience, they will be perceived as being more prepared, more competent, confident, and trustworthy. Eye contact helps to relax the speaker and reminds them that their audience is made up of separate individuals who perceive things differently. Audience response is clearly seen in the expressions of their eyes. | body-language-quotes communication-skills eye-contact-quotes law-of-attraction-quotes mirroring motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young reciprocity relationship-quotes | Susan C. Young | |
| eb0fbaf | 7 Ways to Improve Eye Contact at any Time 1. Relax into the moment by smiling. 2. Practice making eye contact with people you trust, so that when you are with strangers, it is easier to form a connection. 3. When you feel uncomfortable, begin by looking at their mouth or forehead. 4. Lean in and show that you are interested and attentive. 5. Put a little space between you and the other person. 6. Remember that the other person may be feelin.. | body-language-quotes communication-skills eye-contact-quotes law-of-attraction-quotes mirroring motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young reciprocity relationship-quotes | Susan C. Young | |
| deeabc3 | Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth. | brandi-l-bates church love motivation red-flags speak-life truth wisdom words-of-wisdom | Brandi L. Bates | |
| 97aec45 | How do you explain a world that gifts evil men with privilege and wealth and looks the other way while they torment and abuse the weakest members of society? | human-nature injustice philosophy privilege wealth | C.S. Harris | |
| 32d6a2f | Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters. | C.S. Harris | ||
| 717f57f | diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness. | C.S. Harris | ||
| 45a7754 | Lord love us, I need a drink," said Calhoun, looking faintly green around the gills as he paused on the flagway in front of the chapel to draw in a deep breath of fresh air. "I've dressed many a gentleman in my career--sober, drunk, and even dead. But I must say, this is the first time I've ever been called upon to dress one who was in bits." Monday," | C.S. Harris | ||
| 406bfdf | The Scottish vernacular is rich in colourful euphemisms for inebriation: 'stocious', 'stotting', 'guttered', 'steaming', 'steamboats', 'wellied' and 'hoolit' are just a few. Another is 'mortal', as in 'I was fair mortal last night' (meaning 'I was very drunk indeed'). So 'Mortal Causes' evoked, in my mind, the demon drink, just as surely as it did any darker and more violent imagery. | Ian Rankin | ||
| dd7c304 | Have you ever known someone who worried about dating a long-time friend? If you have, you've probably heard that person say something like this: "He asked me out, but I'm just afraid that if we start actually it will change our friendship." What is this person really saying? People who make statements like that, whether or not they realize it, recognize that dating encourages romantic expectations. In a true friendship you don't feel pres.. | Joshua Harris | ||
| f207516 | Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal--someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever." He" | C.S. Harris | ||
| fcf9ef8 | The war had taught us so many things: how to spin wool and weave cloth; how to fashion our own shoes from old saddle leather and sturdy canvas; how to plow fields and mend fences. Now it had taught us to kill, and how to protect ourselves from the consequences of those killings with a grim purposefulness that would have been unimaginable even a year before. | C.S. Harris | ||
| 304b381 | In 1912 he had joined a small quasi-Masonic organization named the Ordo Templi Orientis, or OTO, which boasted 500 members spread across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Crowley seized control of the OTO, started a chapter in Britain, and began rewriting its rituals, grafting The Book of the Law into the society's texts | George Pendle | ||
| 3a1cd91 | In Tibet, the word for meditation is gom, which means "to become familiar with one's self." | Valerie Mason-John | ||
| 1dd4107 | When a boy grows up in a "dysfunctional" family (perhaps there is no other kind of family), his interior warriors will be killed off early. Warriors, mythologically, lift their swords to defend the king. The King in a child stands for and stands up for the child's mood. But when we are children our mood gets easily overrun and swept over in the messed-up family by the more powerful, more dominant, more terrifying mood of the parent. We can .. | Robert Bly | ||
| f754b2d | The Weasel Cafferty's lieutenant Aly the Weasel's son Ellen Dempsey owner of MG Cabs in Edinburgh DI Bobby Hogan Leith-based detective WPC Antonia "Toni" Jackson experienced uniformed officer at St. Leonard's PC John "Perry" Mason latest recruit to the uniformed branch at St. Leonard's Laura Stafford a prostitute Donny Dow father of Laura's child DS Liz Hetherington Dundee-based detective Ricky manager of the Sauna Paradiso Other Characters.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| c225fb2 | I'm Danny Wexler and this is Channel Five sports! The [Undisclosed] football team has been raped in the ass by fate once again, booted from the first round of the playoffs as they failed to carry their inflatable turd past a chalk line in the grass as often as their opponents did. Here's Hornets quarterback Mikey Wolford, flopping that right arm around like a retard while he tries to pass to a teammate that apparently only he can see. Aaaaa.. | David Wong | ||
| 5ce82a5 | Rising above mediocrity never just happens; it's always a result of faith combined with works. Faith without works is like gold within the earth. It is of no value until it is mined. A person who has faith but no actions is like a bird that has wings but no feet. The Bible says, "Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead" (James 2:17 NKJV). Biblical principles multiplied by nothing equal nothing. Let's be people who put our faith .. | John Mason | ||
| d4031b2 | We've piled his plate high with shit," Fox conceded. "And not even tied a bib around his neck," Kaye added. "Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?" -- | Ian Rankin | ||
| 0d64610 | all eyes turned towards him, entered the | Ian Rankin | ||
| b99f4f6 | It was a quiet street--people kept themselves to themselves. It | Ian Rankin | ||
| d11a19c | Job, actually. I read it once a long time ago. It seems more frightening now though. The man who begins to doubt, who shouts out against his God, looking for a response, and who gets one. 'God gave the world to the wicked,' he says at one point, and 'Why should I bother?' at another." "It sounds interesting. But he goes on bothering?" "Yes, that's the incredible thing." | Ian Rankin | ||
| 4cf914c | I doubt he'd give me the smell from his farts--no, tell a lie: in that one respect he's being more than generous. | Ian Rankin | ||
| bae9b3e | He felt his arms ache and, looking down, saw that the girl had stopped struggling. There came that point, that sudden, blissful point, when it was useless to go on living, and when the mind and body came to accept that such was the case. That was a beautiful, peaceful moment, the most relaxed moment of one's life. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 0334d9d | We're ready for the off, then. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 056a7b4 | Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 1ad54cc | despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 8b376c3 | Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 4b5e4a4 | Scotland is divided into several police regions. Rebus works for Lothian and Borders Police, whose "beat" covers Edinburgh and most points south until you reach the English border. The region's HQ is based at Fettes Avenue in Edinburgh, and is often referred to by officers as "the Big House." Other main police stations in the capital include St. Leonard's (where Rebus is normally based), Leith (the port of Edinburgh), Gayfield Square and We.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 088042e | No sooner had he finished with a case than another two or three appeared in its place. What was the name of that creature? The Hydra, was it? That was what he was fighting. Every time he cut off a head, more popped into his in-tray. Coming back from a holiday was a nightmare. And now they were giving him rocks to push up hills as well. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 6b08c32 | superintendents, chief inspectors, inspectors, sergeants and constables. If an officer works for CID (Criminal Investigation Department), then he or she will carry the prefix D (for Detective). A DCI is a detective chief inspector, DI is a detective inspector, DS a detective sergeant, and DC a detective constable. Officers not assigned to CID would wear a uniform. (Rebus sometimes refers to these unfortunates as "woolly suits.") Lowest in t.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 391cc7c | At Tulliallan Police College DI John Rebus based at St. Leonard's police station in Edinburgh DI James "Jazz" McCullough based in Dundee DI Francis Gray based in Glasgow DS Stu Sutherland based in Livingston DI Thomas "Tam" Barclay based in Falkirk DC Allan Ward based in Dumfries DCI Archibald Tennant the Resurrection Men's boss Andrea Thomson career analyst The Rico Lomax Murder Case Eric "Rico" Lomax murder victim Fenella Rico's widow "Ch.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 8d5c7ae | St. Leonard's Police Station DS Siobhan Clarke (pronounced "Shiv-awn") DI Derek Linford no friend to Rebus, disliked by Siobhan DCS Gill Templer officer in charge of St. Leonard's DC David Hynds a new recruit DS George "Hi-Ho" Silvers officer with both eyes on approaching pension DC Grant Hood young and unpredictable officer with a crush on Siobhan DC Phyllida Hawes tough female officer, usually based at Gayfield Square DCI Bill Pryde secon.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 10e48b7 | Bessant friend of the deceased, also an art dealer Malcolm Neilson artist William Allison Neilson's lawyer Dominic Mann art dealer Eric "Brains" Bain detective, computer specialist Professor Gates pathologist Morris Gerald "Big Ger" Cafferty Edinburgh's preeminent gangster" | Ian Rankin | ||
| 0c0660b | Ah, but it was not a nice world this, not a nice world at all. It was an Old Testament land that he found himself in, a land of barbarity and retribution. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 96d7419 | Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion? | Ian Rankin | ||
| 463b5ce | Thou art the shoals on which Caliban wilt dash his heart to pieces. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| e9d39cc | People are beginning to realise," the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, "that no matter how 'nelly' or how 'fem' a homosexual is, you can only push them so far." -- | homosexual nelly stonewall | Ann Bausum | |
| 6304c9f | The spirit that emerged outside a Mafia-run bar in 1969 became the pulse of the gay community and inspired not just an annual parade but ways to express gay pride in individual lives. Stonewall happens every day. | Ann Bausum | ||
| a5bc24f | Change does come. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 633bc3e | At the time, I thought if Stan Davis wanted to live on Green Valley Road, or in the Hundred-Acre Wood, that was his right as an American | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 67801dd | The Hayes-Tilden deadlock and the fate of Radical Republican administrations in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana eventually were resolved in Washington with Senator John B. Gordon playing a large role. Gordon apparently helped forge a "bargain" under which the South agreed to certification of the election of Hayes on an understanding that the new President would evacuate the last Federal occupation troops from South Carolina, Florida,.. | Jack Hurst | ||
| 61a7d99 | everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have even heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money to have put in to make sure we're remembered, these'll last what--a hundred years? two hundred?--and they'll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I'm cremated t.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 5f0c237 | Modern wars as a rule have been caused by the commercial and financial rivalry and intrigues of the capitalist interests in the different countries. Whether they have been frankly waged as wars of aggression or have been hypocritically represented as wars of "defense," they have always been made by the [ruling] classes and fought by The Masses. Wars bring wealth and power to the ruling classes, and suffering, death, and demoralization to th.. | John Nichols |