Unspun Book Quotes & Sayings

There's no respect for older people at all today, and that's saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there's no calling people 'Mr' or 'Mrs' now, they just call you, and it's all 'fuck off' and the likes of. — Stephen Richards

Note to self: never ever use your brain again. — Karen Swart

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness. — Alexandre Dumas

While 76 per cent of Americans said they watched, read or heard the news on a daily basis, only 41 per cent said they went beyond the headlines.4 So there's this potential illusion of knowing. It is the danger of having a superficial level of knowledge about anything, but believing you know everything. — Philip G. Zimbardo

The two states - envious and grateful - have little to do with what a person actually receives. They have more to do with the character of the person. If you give something to entitled, envious people, it profits them or you nothing. They just feel that you have finally paid your debt to them. If you give to grateful people, they feel overwhelmed with how fortunate they are and how good you are. Parents need to help children work through their feelings of entitlement and envy and move to a position of gratitude. — Henry Cloud

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. — Dave Chappelle

Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers. — P. J. O'Rourke

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible. — Oswald Spengler

I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates. — Nick Hornby

Without art there is no hope. — Rosie O'Donnell