Self Pity Brainy Quotes & Sayings

The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past, and no one lives in the future, either. — Harry Mulisch

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with. — Mary Shelley

My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos. — Michael Hintze

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. — Christopher Hitchens

For more than half a century ... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution. — Zachary Taylor

I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people. — Paige Butcher

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. — Jodi Picoult

Oh, be quiet, Fo-Fo. — Suzanne Collins

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world ... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe. — Irving Penn

Forget about what you might have lost but instead focus on what you have room to gain. — Lindsey Rietzsch

The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus. — Thomas Pynchon