Woebegone In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. — David Foster Wallace

Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times. — Trevanian

What concrete steps can I take now?" I asked the voice, and it replied: "Go to a house of prayer and pray."
"Without faith?" I countered, and the voice said: "You have more faith than you know. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity. — Baruch Spinoza

And if it gets you killed?" She shrugged and looked away. "No one lives forever. — Julie Kagawa

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future. — Benjamin Netanyahu

The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Freud suggested that, in normal mourning, one internalizes the dead. The dead are fully assimilated into the living, a process he called introjection. — Teju Cole

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer. — Andy Warhol

There's a reason why many people feel most loved and cared for in the therapists's or counselor's office: few people ask us questions as well as they do, with the interest that they do. We should consider deprofessionalizing that task, though, and restore it to the context of friendship and mentorship where it originally belonged. — Matthew Lee Anderson

People want to visit places that satisfy their social needs. — Charles Duhigg

The more we know about the former world, the better we'll understand what happened when it fell. — Emily St. John Mandel

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate. — Olivier Theyskens

I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work. — Michael Sheen