“You’ve made a very interesting point, which I’ll have to consider at length.
Of course, by ‘Interesting’, I mean ‘contradictory to my theory’.
By ‘consider’ I mean ‘to ignore’.
And by ‘at length’, I mean ‘I stopped listening before you finished speaking’.
I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive. You make me feel bad; feeling bad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad. Lionel Shriver – ‘We need to talk about Kevin’
If I waited till I had all my ducks in a row, I'd never make it across the street. Sometimes you've just got to gather up what you've got and make a run for it.