Pg 305 Quotes & Sayings

As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant. — Charles Dickens

She would hurt and be unhappy when she woke up, but she would live. That's all that mattered. That's everything that mattered. — Thea Harrison

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.' — David Johansen

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving. — Tinashe

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor." — Hilaire Belloc

Many of us believe that if we only had more money, we would be happier. Yet--excluding those who live below the poverty line and cannot meet their basic needs for food, shleter, safety, or medical care--greater wealth generally does not lead to substantially greater well-being. One explanation for why more money does not bring lasting happiness is that people become accustomed to their higher standard of living and desire even more money to maintain their happiness. In addition, when people become wealthier, they tend to compare themselves to other wealthy people, rather than to their peers at their previous income levels. — Ted Cascio

the moment a politician removes his shirt, his policies are dead in the water. All he will say is, "Look, my dear fellow countrymen, I have made the most extraordinary discovery: my policies look better without a shirt on. — Timur Vermes

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past. — Philip Carr-Gomm