Issis Flooring Quotes & Sayings

Neither, it turned out, was politics. His views on government were strong, if a trifle simplistic. The cause of the Depression, he felt, was Al Capone. "The trouble with the nation's economy," he declared, was simply Prohibition, which "makes it possible for large-scale dealers in illicit liquor to amass tremendous amounts of currency"; the "present economic crisis," he explained, was due to the "withdrawal of billions of dollars from the channels of legitimate trade" by these bootleggers. — Robert A. Caro

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration, centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god. But this is impossible. Is there any more cogent indication of my creaturehood than the insufficiency of my own will? For I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. When I give it pleasure, it deceives my expectation and makes me suffer pain. When I give myself what I conceive to be freedom, I deceive myself and find that I am the prisoner of my own blindness and selfishness and insufficiency. — Thomas Merton

I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. — Lucille Ball

Now if we're finished jousting over sex-"
"Darling,I haven't even picked up my lance."
"That's a very weak double entendre."
She had him there. "It's early.why don't you tell me why i'm having breakfast with you."
"I was up all night."
The comment that occurred to him was not only weak,but crude.He let it pass. — Nora Roberts

When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs. — Marco Roth

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. — Maya Angelou

I wear quite fitted clothing. I don't like wearing baggy stuff. — Kit Harington

I had no clue; you can achieve all that, with one hug. But hey, I am Kay Kay! The first super hero koala bear and I give the best hugs! — Talia

I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality. — Steve Dildarian

Well said, old mole! — William Shakespeare

Life has everything in it. But you only see what your perception allow you to see — Bruce H. Lipton

What are you to do with a boy who never argues with you, but does exactly what he likes and when you get mad at him just says he's sorry and lets you storm? — William Somerset Maugham

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films. — Ray Liotta

The main reason for moral inconsistencies and betrayals, Ayn Rand believed, is that men have been taught to pursue ideals that are irrational and therefore impractical. Traditional virtues, such as self-sacrifice, faith, and humility, are contrary to the requirements of human life and happiness. They force men into the horrible dilemma of having to choose between virtue and happiness - between morality and life itself. — Robert James Bidinotto

They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value. — Walter Kempowski