Demiris Moore Quotes & Sayings

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. — Theodore Roosevelt

I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference. — Bob Hartley

Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because we don't want to recognize that we can't escape ourselves, except in death. Now — Thomas Bernhard

I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well. — Britt Ekland

If I could pray with my cock, I'd be much more religious — George R R Martin

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. — Isabel Allende

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything. — Hubert H. Humphrey

I taught myself to name my name,
To bark back, loosen love and crying;
To ease my woman so she came,
To ease an old man who was dying. — W. D. Snodgrass

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't ... that should tell us something. — Eugene O'Neill

It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing. — Jonathan Schell

Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people- — Alison Arngrim

I told him I loved him," she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. "And he just said it wasn't enough." Her eyes were wide and bleak . "How am I supposed to live with that? — Jojo Moyes

It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have. Simple arithmetic, that's all. Suppose you had something and added something to it. What would that make?"
"More," said Milo quickly.
"Quite correct," he nodded. "Now suppose you had something and added nothing to it. What would you have?"
"The same," he answered again, without much conviction.
"Splendid," cried the Dodecahedron. "And suppose you had something and added less than nothing to it. What would you have then?"
"FAMINE!" roared the anguished Humbug, who suddenly realized that that was exactly what he'd eaten twenty-three bowls of. — Norton Juster