"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Wisdom Quotes #Travel Quotes #Character Quotes

“The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.”

Source : Ronald Sukenick (1986). “The Endless Short Story”, p.39, University of Alabama Press
“Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'”
“A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.”
“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.”
“Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.”
“A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.”
“I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.”

Source : "Dewhurst in 2007 supported guest worker program ‘for those here today illegally’" by Peggy Fikac, blog.chron.com. June 27, 2012.

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