Emsteright Quotes & Sayings

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live. — Michel De Montaigne

I have a hard time repeating myself. — Ariel Rechtshaid

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipation is increased. This kind of anticipation is the spiritual equivalent of a Cheeto and we want them to eat the whole bag. — Geoffrey Wood

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams . — James Branch Cabell

At the end of the Middle Ages, slavery was almost unknown in Christian Europe. During the early modern period, the rise of European capitalism went hand in hand with the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. — Yuval Noah Harari

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. — Martin Mull

In a few days you'll be twenty-something - twenty-five, twenty-six, sixty-three, doesn't matter.
You're no better off - mentally, physically, financially, emotionally, and so on - than you were at the time of your last birthday; and maybe the one before that even.
In fact, things seem kind of worse.
Then again, maybe things are too much the same.
Maybe sameness worsens as time moves forth.
Shouldn't sameness stay the same? — Brian Alan Ellis

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives. — Marisa Silver

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of. — Thomas Frank

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. — Sandra Bullock

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief. — Eric Bolling

You can let more people into the mix who could possibly make you happy. Or you can hold out for that two percent of men who you assume meet your requirements, and hope that coincidentally, someone in that two percent feels that you're in his two percent. And even then, the people you assume to meet your requirements might in fact not be the right fit for you. — Lori Gottlieb