Friday Morning Workout Quotes & Sayings

When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them. — Paul Mooney

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. — Elihu Root

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. — Bill Gates

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces. — Pinetop Perkins

To sleep is an act of faith. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In Kant's description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject's homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act "beyond the pleasure principle," ignoring the pursuit of pleasures. For Lacan, exactly the same description holds for desire, which is why enjoyment is not something that comes naturally to the subject, as a realization of her inner potential, but is the content of a traumatic superego injunction. — Slavoj Zizek

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area. — Jessica Lynch

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important. — Bear Grylls

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it. — Fergie

I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences? — Rob Payne