quotes about Sad Truth

“I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.”

Source : "Comedy Post-Bin Laden" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 16, 2011.

“Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.”

Source : "Rituals". Book by Cees Nooteboom, 1980.

“[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity...”

“The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.”

“What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.”

“Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.”

“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”

“I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.”

“The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.”

“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”