Abbi Glines Quotes

Valentine's Day - a nice holiday because it's the first day of the rest of your wife.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days.

Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone.

Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.

Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate the joy of being in love. Unless you're single & lonely then it's called Laundry Day.

One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men don't have to.

I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

Valentine's Day's not for men.

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot. See, I just said I need to be quiet, but that's not the kind of communication I mean. I mean expressing myself or even standing up for myself. I can sometimes be very passive.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

There were two main points I wanted to get across in Valentine, the first being that yes, Valentine's Day is an arbitrary day, but why would you not take that excuse to celebrate love? The second point. . .since it is just an arbitrary day. . .why not treat every day like Valentine's Day?

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.

Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.