Ilena Silverman Quotes & Sayings

Nobody wants to feel dirty, but everyone has to wipe their own butt. — Aarti Patel

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. — Baltasar Gracian

I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through. — Kanye West

Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds. — Milton Friedman

The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle. — Vayalar Ravi

He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease. — Greg Chappell

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood. — Brooke Shields

I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't. — Carrot Top

What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity - the self! — H.G.Wells

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity. — Robin Sharma

Create simple ways to prove the Divine exists in every aspect of your life and then make the choice to cast your gaze only upon those things that make your heart sing loudest. — Molly Friedenfeld

Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well. — Mike Darnell

We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent. — Marge Piercy

Hope was a dangerous thing, I knew, but it didn't stop your heart from latching on to it like a life raft. — Karina Halle

I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself. — Nanao Sakaki