Haymakers Bar Quotes & Sayings

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. — Idries Shah

To slay, to love - the greatest enterprises of life upon a man! And I have no experience of either. — Joseph Conrad

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama

Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy ... We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. — The Invisible Committee

I used to think I was the only one who felt things. but I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity. It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would really be a gory, blood-smeared earth. — Beatrice Sparks

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement. — Jasper Fforde

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. — Bob Hope

If the rays are the souls of living beings, then the light of that same divine Sun is the spirit of the whole of nature. It is the same light; but not divided, not distinct, as are the rays which we call souls. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake. — R.C. Sproul

From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people. — Jeff Koons

From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970s
Surprisingly, none of the new developments in travel publishing came from established companies. The changes in the air seemed to completely bypass them and when they did wake up to the upsurge in growth it was too late -- they'd been overtaken. Much the same happened a decade later with computer books. Just as the travel book explosion was led by travelers who got into publishing rather than publishers getting into travel, so the computer book explosion was led by computer geeks getting into publishing. The regular publishers never saw it coming. — Tony Wheeler

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. — W. Edwards Deming

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar. — Val Kilmer

I discovered this myself when I was woken up in the middle of the night and chased sixteen miles by an angry mob armed with torches, swords, and vicious dogs, — Lemony Snicket