Jesse Wente Quotes & Sayings

A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists. — Deepak Chopra

It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me. — Terry Gilliam

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. — Jennifer Weiner

When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. Put The Idiot in your lap or over your face, and you know where you are going to be for the afternoon. — Roy Blount Jr.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle. — Valerie Harper

If we understood ourselves better we would damage ourselves less. — James Baldwin

Ye've no idea how lovely ye look, stark naked, wi' the sun behind you. All gold, like ye were dipped in it. — Diana Gabaldon

People will always want a free lunch. — Wayne Rogers

Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a semi-automatic. Now, for years I've been pressing for stricter regulations on cameras, especially around our elected officials. Too many political lives have been cut short by some crazed shooter. — Stephen Colbert

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it. — Ted Lindsay

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich. — Daniel Kahneman