Lishman Unit Quotes & Sayings

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money. — Merle Haggard

i mean, heather said, our bodies are just these things that we float around in. it's not like they belong to anyone — Emily Franklin

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Just consider a child who, absorbed in play, forgets himself - this is the moment to take a snapshot; when you wait until he notices that you are taking a picture, his face congeals and freezes, showing his unnatural self-consciousness rather than his natural graciousness. Why do most people have that stereotyped expression on their faces whenever they are photographed? This expression stems from their concern with the impression they are going to leave on the onlooker. It is "cheese" that makes them so ugly. Forgetting themselves, the photographer, and the future onlooker would make them beautiful. — Viktor E. Frankl

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. — V.S. Pritchett

Oh god, I thought, can nothing in this jungle behave as it ought? Must fruits move and trees breathe and freshwater rivers taste of the ocean? Why must nothing obey the laws of nature? Why must everything point so heavily toward the existence of enchantment? — Hanya Yanagihara

How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything? — Albert Camus

I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted. — Gloria Feldt

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain. — Chris Prentiss

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky. — Mike Birbiglia

What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right. — Son House

He turned the pages in steady progression, though now and then he would seem to linger upon one page, one line, perhaps one word. He would not look up then. He would not move, apparently arrested and held immobile by a single word which had perhaps not yet impacted, his whole being suspended by the single trivial combination of letters in quiet and sunny space, so that hanging motionless and without physical weight he seemed to watch the slow flowing of time beneath him, thinking All I wanted was peace thinking, — William Faulkner

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating. — Jim Harrison