quotes about Comeuppance

“One side of me says, I'd like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick?”

“Youth is life's beautiful moment.”

“I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights.”

“I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’”

Source : Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.201, Macmillan

“Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.”

“The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.”

“The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.”

“I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.”

“I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.”

“You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers -- you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.”