Crotchety Old Men Quotes & Sayings

And that's the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit. — Ben Monopoli

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks! — Tennessee Williams

Diversification is a hedge for ignorance — William O'Neil

A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either. — Eckhart Tolle

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people. — Leon Panetta

Then again, it's not like there's a right way to end a person's life, is there? — Kami Garcia

Bird misses everything at once. One thing makes her want all the others - lived or not, still she misses them. She misses lives she has never lived - days issued out of the future , hours that will never be. — Noy Holland

For once, I want to know what it feels like to be someone's first choice".
~Fable — Monica Murphy

I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

heart with greater joy than when my grain and new wine abound! (Ps. 4:7) — Beth Moore

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form. — Ian McEwan

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs ... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. — Elizabeth Warren

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. — R.D. Laing

As we look at the major acquisitions that others made during 1982, our reaction is not envy, but relief that we were non-participants. For in many of these acquisitions, managerial intellect wilted in competition with managerial adrenaline. The thrill of the chase blinded the pursuers to the consequences of the catch. Pascal's observation seems apt: It has struck me that all men's — Warren Buffett