Mice And Men Lenny Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including - most significantly - how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it. — Ogyen Trinley Dorje

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it. — Jill Scott

Voices tossed up and down the long flights of stairs, sourceless and intertwining like crickets' chorus, gentle as fingers on my hair. Night, they said, good night, sleep well. Welcome back, Lexie. Yes, welcome back. Good night. Sweet dreams. — Tana French

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV. — Kary Mullis

Everything moves way too fast. — Psy

He chuckles and says, "Finally. More than friends." I put on the most serious face I can muster and offer, "yeah, more than friends ... Best friends forever! — Belle Aurora

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place. — Eckhart Tolle

The way you see yourself and others will significantly impact your ability to give your time, treasure or talents. — Vinnie Fisher

You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book — Emily Gowor

How conscience tells us that we ought to be fair, nobody knows. This we can say: we don't know it just from being told, we don't know it from the five senses, and we don't know it by inference from prior knowledge. We just know it. The knowledge is underived. — J. Budziszewski

We should have smashed through the door long ago," grunted Thor. Everyone had always thought of Thor as Lennie from Of Mice and Men: too big and too slow. The chief difference being that while Lenny accidentally hugged little animals to death, Thor had a penchant for beating the shit out of them with his war hammer, Mjolnir. — Dylan Callens

Lives in stories have direction and meaning. Even stupid, meaningless lives, like Lenny's in "Of Mice and Men," Acquire through their places in a story at least the dignity and meaning of being Stupid, Meaningless Lives, the consolation of being exemplars of something. In real life you do not get even that. — Sam Savage

Floor: the world's biggest shelf. — Frankie Rose

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?' — Lewis Black

Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya