Dohmann Pecan Quotes & Sayings

Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those. — Penn Jillette

Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. — Arthur Miller

Gus the driver is everywhere and yet he appears nowhere, not in portraits or photographs, not even in the stories of men like Barthelme and Carver, who were all about guys with jobs and prospects like Gus's but who insisted on more sorrow, more angst, than Gus remotely manifests. If Gus weeps sometimes for no reason, if he stands despairing in the aisle of a Wal-Mart, it is not apparent in his daily demeanor ... — Michael Cunningham

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor. — P. J. O'Rourke

Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about the progress of life, from its fragile beginnings through its joys and turbulence and on to its end, its magnificent end. — Gerald Elias

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come. — Meg Rosoff

Better the devil you know.
I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho. — Patrick Ness

Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents. — Elizabeth Gilbert

People are slippery.
Especially when they excrete.
Or bleed.
Or fuck. — Logan Ryan Smith