17202 Quotes & Sayings

I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache an about lying awake.' That's true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. — C.S. Lewis

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands — Jerry Lewis

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers. — Bill James

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California. — James K. Polk

We know we're going to go through ups and downs and we've all experienced that, but it's about surrendering some of that control, which we all find so hard to do, but it's really freeing when you can do that. — Mike Fisher

In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense. — Tim O'Brien

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload. — Russell L. Ackoff

You can work hard,
But if you don't work smarter
You 'll work hard for the rest of your life. — Unknown

Oh, I'd heard him. Loud and clear. That was why I wanted to kill him.
Which basically showed how amazing the human mind was; how you could care about someone but want to slit his or her throat at the same time. Like having a sister who you wanted to punch right in the ovaries. You still loved her, you just wanted to sock her right in the baby-maker to teach her a lesson - not that I knew from experience or anything. — Mariana Zapata

Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~ — Eileen Miller

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters. — Mia Wasikowska

Within the book and volume of thy brain ... — William Shakespeare

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal. — Conor Oberst

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not. — Kelly Cutrone