Black Mischief Evelyn Waugh Quotes & Sayings

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually. — Elliott Smith

If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these kids who were just unbelievable. And I understand that you can be very, very good, but there's something that separates very, very good from great, and I knew that I wasn't great. — Condoleezza Rice

Video games teach these boys that if you manipulate things a certain way, you will get an easy win. These boys have little interaction with people during the years when such interaction is crucial in developing the skills they need to handle themselves as an adult. They shut themselves off to the real world and get caught up in their fantasy worlds. After a while, they prefer their fantasies to the real world. In the real world, things are not so easy to control. They can't rule with a joystick. In the real world they have to talk to people. They have to work. That brings up another point. Laziness. A guy addicted to video games can waste hour after hour after hour without doing anything productive. Playing games is easy. Studying is hard. Taking care of daily chores is hard. Working on a real job is hard. We parents are to blame for some of this because it started out as a way to entertain our kids. We — Leonard Sax

Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable. — John Loengard

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws. — Charles Bukowski

Love the church because Jesus loves it. — D. A. Carson

Mourn. Get it out of your system. Because what you can do for the dead is exactly nothing. But what you can do for those still standing with you is lead. — Robert J. Crane

I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic. — Cecily Strong

In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined. — Lailah Gifty Akita

there's nothing there — John Green

27. Dogs are geniuses of loyalty. And that is a good kind of genius to have. — Matt Haig

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife. — Beatrice Wood