The Office Keith Appraisal Quotes & Sayings

At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one
which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*. — Dag Hammarskjold

The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit — Napoleon Bonaparte

Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise. — Israelmore Ayivor

I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, 'delusions' are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It's the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart. — Thomas Pynchon

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water. — Shashi Tharoor

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time. — William Kent Krueger

Do we know what we look like? Not really. — Walker Evans

Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are grateful,' Brother Steindl-Rast explained, 'you are not fearful, and when you are not fearful, you are not violent. When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and respectful to all people. The grateful world is a world of joyful people. Grateful people are joyful people. A grateful world is a happy world. — Douglas Carlton Abrams

At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination. — Muriel Spark

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith. — Matthew Henry

Your true Zen nature can never be gained or lost. It is what you are. — Huang Po & Thomas E Uharriet

And if you lose the willingness, what do you have? — Sabrina Benulis

Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how. — Herbert Mason