Safe Memorial Weekend Quotes & Sayings

Well, it wasn't no revelation to me cause I always knew she was a freak. — Truman Capote

Insanity
a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R.D. Laing

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor. — David Suchet

It's a beautiful thing, to my people who keep an impressive wingspan, even when the cubicle shrink. — Aesop Rock

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination. — Vince Lombardi

Dwindling energy is one of the most boring things about being old. From time to time you get a day when it seems to be restored, and you can't help feeling that you are 'back to normal', but it never lasts. You just have to resign yourself to doing less
or rather, taking more breaks than you used to in whatever you are doing. In my case I fear that what I most often do less of is my duty towards my companion rather than indulgence of my private inclinations. — Diana Athill

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer. — Julia Quinn

Here, then, is our situation at the start of the twenty-first century: We have accumulated stupendous know-how. We have put it in the hands of some of the most highly trained, highly skilled, and hardworking people in our society. And, with it, they have indeed accomplished extraordinary things. Nonetheless, that know-how is often unmanageable. Avoidable failures are common and persistent, not to mention demoralizing and frustrating, across many fields - from medicine to finance, business to government. And the reason is increasingly evident: the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably. Knowledge has both saved us and burdened us. That — Atul Gawande

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole. — Gregory Bateson

Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us — Eric Hoffer

Let us not forget that the apostles were simple people; they were neither scribes nor doctors of the law, nor did they belong to the class of priests. With their limitations and with the authorities against them, how did they manage to fill Jerusalem with their teaching (see Acts 5:28)? It is clear that only the presence with them of the risen Lord and the action of the Holy Spirit can explain this fact. — Pope Francis

Well, you can't have just some of me, Jai," I told her. "You appreciate the part of me that didn't get angry because two 'things' we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don't repair things if they still do what they're supposed to do. The cars still work.
Let's just drive 'em. — Randy Pausch

We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it. — Bill Hicks

These dreams
These empty dreams
from the make-believe bedrooms
their parents left them
are the after-effects
of television programs
about the ideal
white american family
with black maids
and latino janitors
who are well train
to make everyone
and their bill collectors
laugh at them
and the people they represent — Pedro Pietri