Mice Of Men Upstanding Quotes & Sayings

Comforting lies are better than a hurting truth, is my policy, but it's impossible to lie in front of you — D. Aswini

A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned beef, pickles, frankfurters, the great lusty impertinence of good mustard is a man of stone and without heart. — Herb Gardner

Jamie was like no one else he had ever met. She had ethics; she had moral integrity. She was clearly not corruptible, at least not for money
that test was over. — Patricia Cori

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought. — Thomas Bernhard

I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own
that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's Time, not his. — Charles Lamb

Orbiting a planet, or any significant source of gravity, was a lot like constantly throwing yourself at the ground and figuring out how to miss. — Evan Currie

I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

I am not your mother. I'm not looking for something else from life. I'm not looking for more. I'm not looking for a great adventure. I'm not looking, because I found it. You are my more. You are my great adventure. — Samantha Young

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow. — Claudio Reyna

Cereal is food, sort of. It tastes grainy, easy and light, with a hint of false fruitiness. It tastes the way America feels. — Gary Shteyngart

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won. — Paul Celan

Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better? — Peter Cheeke

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it. — Edward Dahlberg

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes. — Fernando Pessoa

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon. — Jason Biggs