Social Power Gifts

"We can waste time and look for a solution or...just find a scapegoat?"

"How to talk to people" "Make them rue the day"

'No thanks, I don't drink when I'm driving home a point about investing.'

"Now remember, if I jump out the window, I want to leave."

'Would you say your glass is half empty or half full?' 'Whose round is it?'

"Let me get this, but keep in mind that you'll pay for it in other, more subtle ways later on."

'The mask?... Oh, I always try to obscure my face a little, at parties. Just to give the other guys a fighting chance.'

"Think I'll be a more effective alpha male if I learn to play pool?"

Like Minded

'Dear Miss Etiquette, I'm never sure if I should say anything...'

'They're just a few bored students with some vague ideology. They'll be gone and forgotten in no time.'

'While they're still enthusiastic do you think we could get them to take on climate change and the war on drugs as well?'

"'Disability benefits' they said... Not while there are perfectly good jobs as traffic cones to be had!"

'Are you two friends?' - 'No, we just hate the same people.'

'I wish i could think of some way to get away form him.' 'I wish i could think of some way to get away form her.'

'I know just how you feel. Sometimes I think I'm living on the wrong planet too.'

She realised it would be foolish to start a diet with third cousin Rodney's retirement party due in only 12 years.

'This vacation, let's go on something OTHER than a power trip.'

'I guess I don't need to tell you that you got the job.'

Perfect solution. Free street lighting, and we sell the surplus to the national grid.

'Oh hey Rhonda, whatcha doin?'

'I enjoy the simple pleasures in life... A big office, a huge salary, firing people...'

"Smartphone sales" "Degradation of society"

'Nobody likes me at school. I need a personal assistant, a trainer and a P.R. firm!'

'Malcolm is unswayed by post-foundationalist trendiness.'

'Dinner for two, table for seven.'

"What's the fun of smelling the Bougainvillea in paradise if I don't smell the envy on Facebook?"

"Agreed then-I won't network you if you don't network me."

"McNab here is with our consensus engineering department."

Always right.

'That's the problem with absolute power, Sire. It corrupts absolutely. And it always seems to start with the fenders and door panels.'