Incurable Depreciation Quotes & Sayings

Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very sure source of personal knowledge again, "but they dont really want it. Half of them wants it but the other half dont. What they really want is to maintain an illusion of freedom in front of their wives and business associates. Its a satisfactory compromise, and as long they can have that they can get along without the other which is more expensive. The only trouble is, every man who declares himself free to his friends has to make a slave out of his wife and employees to keep up the illusion and prove it; the wife to be free in front of her bridgeclub has to command her Help, Husband and Heirs. It resolves itself into a battle; whoever wins, the other one loses. For every general in this world there have to be 6,000 privates. — James Jones

Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes. — Keeley Hawes

Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home. — Nicole Blackman

There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that. — James Patterson

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up. — Haruki Murakami

The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing. — Jon Lester

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing. — Daniel Goleman

Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence. — Russell Stannard

Well he should get over himself. He tried to get me burned at the stake in Brit History yesterday. Here I am minding my own business like a good little girl, and out of the blue Tucker raises his hand and accuses me of being a witch"
"sounds like something Tucker would do" admits wendy.
"Everybody had to vote on it. I barely escaped with my nuns life. Obviously I'll have to return the favour. — Cynthia Hand

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. — Josiah Quincy

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. — Arthur Helps

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — C.S. Lewis

Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.
From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962 — Sylvia Plath

Texans are by nature independent people. — Joe Barton

But only the English would insist on two separate versions of Gainsborough's checkout line. Or even have the chutzpah to suggest it. Julius Caesar didn't say "Et tu, Brute?" and "Where's the Praetorian guard when you really need them?" John Wilkes Booth didn't shriek "Sic semper tyrannis" and "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how'd you like the play? — Joe Queenan