66666 Quotes & Sayings

In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life. — Chuck Close

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child. — Toba Beta

Happiness is having just a little bit more than you need. — J.J. Martin

The problem of evil is unanswerable if one believes that there is only one god and that he is omnipotent as well as infinitely good, merciful, and just. But as soon as one denies one or more of these premises, the problem disappears. The belief in two great gods, one good and one evil, is merely one way of doing that. Polytheism is another. Belief in only one god who is omnipotent but not infinitely good, just, and merciful is a third way. Belief in a god who has these moral qualities but who is not omnipotent is a fourth. Belief in no god at all, a fifth. — Walter Kaufmann

The dialogue fills the auditorium like an unrefrigerated boxcar of month-old steaks. — David Sedaris