Jerry Lewis Mda Quotes & Sayings

The other aspect of those weekday-evening trips he loved was the light itself, how it filled the train like something living as the cars rattled across the bridge, how it washed the weariness from his seatmates' faces and revealed them as they were when they first came to the country, when they were young and America seemed conquerable. He'd watch that kind light suffuse the car like syrup, watch it smudge furrows from foreheads, slick gray hairs into gold, gentle the aggressive shine from cheap fabrics into something lustrous and fine. And then the sun would drift, the car rattling uncaringly away from it, and the world would return to its normal sad shapes and colors, the people to their normal sad state, a shift as cruel and abrupt as if it had been made by a sorcerer's wand. — Hanya Yanagihara

Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house! — Jerry Lewis

If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes. — Jerry Lewis

Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity. — Basilea Schlink

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.288 — Thomas Sowell

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher. — Dan Rather

The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you. — Ransom Riggs

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value ... — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life. — Anton Chekhov

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met. — Edsger Dijkstra

The pain never goes away, Freya, but it becomes manageable. One day, you'll wake up and realize you can breathe a little easier than the day before. Until then, all you can do is lean on people closest to you... lean on me. I want you to. — Jessica Prince