Shifman Mattress Quotes & Sayings

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched. — Blaise Pascal

You took the best, so why not take the rest? — James Baldwin

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn't dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we'll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear. — Curtis Sittenfeld

We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off. — Frans De Waal

I would get under Abbott's skin in question time if I recited some Latin words and phrases denoting Abbott's hypocrisy, assuming that Abbott's religious training would enable him to understand. I was sceptical, but at the same time enthusiastic. I never got around to it, but I kept my little list of Latin words and phrases in my question time folder for the whole of the period of the Gillard Government. My favourite was actually derived from Greek, the obscure word pseudologue, which means 'compulsive liar' - an accurate description of Abbott's behaviour in his scare campaign on carbon. — Greg Combet

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman. — Aretha Franklin

Don't just reach for the stars, pluck one out of the sky. — Marissa Carmel

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance. — Perry Christie

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest. — Paul Cezanne

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878. — William Henry Jackson

I want to stay below the radar and make good films. I have to be careful; I don't want my life to change. I really don't want to be a movie star. — Amelia Warner

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown. — Pat Conroy

in November was dismal. It was a time of short gray days and long — Sharon Cramer

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson