Concrete Footpath Quotes & Sayings

Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself - and there isn't one. — Wei Wu Wei

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not. — Mooji

Denying Ahab greatness is an aesthetic blunder: He is akin to Achilles, Odysseus, and King David in one register, and to Don Quixote, Hamlet, and the High Romantic Prometheus of Goethe and Shelley in another. Call the first mode a transcendent heroism and the second the persistence of vision. Both ways are antithetical to nature and protest against our mortality. The epic hero will never submit or yield. — Harold Bloom

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you — Jon Winokur

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy. — John Lennon

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. — John Ruskin

In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks. — Li Keqiang

Look here, my boy, if you have average intelligence, about half the things you do are bound to be right, which is a fair achievement for any career. Don't spend sleepless nights over them. — R.P. Noronha

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. — Jose Mourinho

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people. — Leslie Cockburn

I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be. — Maelle Gavet

I loved psychology and I loved history. — Joely Fisher

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need. — Sarah Strohmeyer