Lynette Scavo Funny Quotes & Sayings

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations. — Orhan Pamuk

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way. — C.S. Lewis

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. — John Allen Paulos

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up. — Gus Van Sant

If you aren't willing to keep looking for light in the darkest of places without stopping, even when it seems impossible, you will never succeed. — Amelia Shepherd

Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it. — Larry J. McKinney

Benevolence is a world of itself
a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior. — Horace Mann

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. — David Guterson

She wiped the mirror so she could look at herself. Mediocre and grim, she thought. Not mediocre, her face, with wide gray eyes, fine nose and smile, but it was grim. A good body, but so long disregarded it seemed grim too. — Lucia Berlin

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term. — Susan Sontag