Sofa Perused Quotes & Sayings

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic. — Adam Gopnik

Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough. — Noah Hawley

No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health. — Napoleon Hill

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. — Gallagher

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people. — Enrique Penalosa

Thought she said to leave the door open."
"It is. It's cracked. That's Open. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower. — Groucho Marx

People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line. — Donald Trump

Ever noticed that no matter what happens in one day, it exactly fits in the newspaper? — Jerry Seinfeld

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. — Morarji Desai

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. — Adam Smith

No, tiny violent one. — Laini Taylor

Time can be strange sometimes. It can leave imprints in particular places, leaving ghosts of memories trapped. — Holly Bourne

When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns. — Flannery O'Connor