Garvis Snook Quotes & Sayings

Sultan would first jump or throw things at the banana or drag humans by the hand toward it in the hope that they'd help him out, or at least be willing to serve as a footstool. — Frans De Waal

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries. — Epicurus

the core of addiction doesn't lie in what you swallow or inject - it's in the pain you feel in your head. Yet we have built a system that thinks we will stop addicts by increasing their pain. "If I had to design a system that was intended to keep people addicted, I'd design exactly the system that we have right now, — Johann Hari

...the human animal is a selfish beast... — Tennessee Williams

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on. — Irvin D. Yalom

Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived. — Tammara Webber

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. — Greg Maddux

As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much. — James Scott

But sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we do it anyway. Maybe for the thrill, maybe to cure our curiosity, or maybe just to lie to ourselves a little longer. — Kandi Steiner