Power In Oedipus Rex Quotes & Sayings

The two waiters inside the cafe knew that theo ld man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.
Last week he tried to commit suicide," one waiter said.
Why?"
He was in despair."
What about?"
Nothing."
How do you know it was nothing."
He has plenty of money. — Ernest Hemingway,

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race? — Monty Woolley

Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake. — Jonathan Franzen

Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am unspeakably grateful at the life I have come to lead. — Wright Morris

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. — Robert Breault

You can use the law of attraction to create your whole life in advance, right down to the next thing you are doing today. — Rhonda Byrne

Become a type, no one saw you. Paranoid thought: What better disguise? But disguise for what? — Jeff VanderMeer

.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile. — Mark Haddon

Opportunity finds you when it's ready, not when you are. — Katie Delahanty

I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well. — Amy Tan

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket. — Francesca Annis