Susane Pfeiffer Quotes & Sayings

I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way ... But lo! men have become the tools of their tools ... We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. — Henry David Thoreau

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else. — Andy Williams

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. — Edmund Hillary

I will never understand why anybody who's having so precious little fun here on earth is so damned intent on living forever. — G.M. Ford

All forms of achievements are all a triumph of discipline. — Sunday Adelaja

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me. — William Jerome

Isn't there anything you care about?" "All is death, woman. All is pain. Love breeds loss. Isolation breeds resentment. No matter which way we turn, we are beaten. Our only true inheritance is death. And our only legacy, dust. — Clive Barker

Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery. — Herman Melville

But time growing old teaches all things. — Aeschylus

No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives. — Walt Disney

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time. — John Mackey

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable. — Anne Roiphe

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go ... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful. — Jerrod Carmichael

FATBACK'S DEAD" The words on the slip of paper struck me like a blow. "Fatback's dead." It was not just the news itself, though the words cut deep. It was the very fact of the note, stuck on my windshield on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, — Kent Nerburn

I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself. — Veronica Roth