Quotes – Set 2
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’
-Sam Levenson
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-George Orwell
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
-Stanislaw Lem
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
-Edmund Wilson
Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.
-Gertrude Stein
There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface. But sometimes, there’s a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
-Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon
All things are difficult before they are easy.
-Dr. Thomas Fuller
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
-Zach Baff