"If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."

-- Mark Van Doren

#Looks Quotes #Tables Quotes #Sucker Quotes

“Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.”
“Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.”
“I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.”
“Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.”
“O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.”
“Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.”

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