Mikesell Show Quotes & Sayings

Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist. — Terry Pratchett

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. — Hideki Tojo

The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. In this state you think no impediment can be large enough to interrupt your passion. The feeling spills beyond the object of your love to color the whole world. The mood is not unlike the mood of revolutionaries in the first blush of victory, at the dawn of hope. Anything seems possible. And in the event of failure, it will be this taste of possibility that makes disillusion bitter. — Susan Griffin

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it ... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness. — George Orwell

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. — John Keats