Harburg Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing. To prove their point - and to capitalize on their self-destructive and destructive behavior - smokers, drinkers, gamblers, and insanity acquitees are suing tobacco companies, liquor companies, gambling casinos, and physicians. — Thomas Szasz

I nod to Death in passing, aware of the sound of my own feet upon my path. The — Peter Matthiessen

And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself. — Alexander Masters

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation. — Jim DeMint

Delight yourself in the Lord." Psalm 37:4 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you. — Idries Shah

That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and the more connections you make, the happier you are, the more point there is to getting up and getting through the day. — Gregory Galloway

I like this marriage thing, because it's the best of all of us. We get to be the whole meal. The appetizer, the entree, the luxurious dessert ...
And yes, the peas and the carrots. — Cassie Mae

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying. — Libba Bray

Kruppe nodded. Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs. — Steven Erikson

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. — Akhenaton

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off! — J.K. Rowling

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news. — Fulton J. Sheen