Ponds Waves Quotes & Sayings

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. — Beatrice Webb

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes. — Brett Gelman

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell. — Ann Richards

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation. — Jen Kirkman

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. — Alexandra Roach

The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell
and not give a damn at the same time. — Paul Simon

I believe that a nuclear Iraq can change its fundamental dynamic, affecting how others behave - toward us and toward allies such as Israel - and emboldening Saddam Hussein to believe, rightly or wrongly, that he can attack his neighbors and, because of his nuclear capability, we will hesitate. — Sandy Berger

Both David and Marcus, I came to realize, though they seemed happy enough, and looked forward to being doctors, had a certain sadness, a sense of loss and renunciation, about other interests they had given up.... Both became medical students, in part, to defer their call-up. But with this, I think, they deferred their other aspirations, a deferment that seemed permanent and irreversible by the time they returned to London. — Oliver Sacks

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction. — Jen Lancaster

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. — Wyndham Lewis

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God. — Alan Paton

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't. — Nicolas Chamfort