"Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy."

--

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2012). “The Job: An American Novel”, p.266, The Floating Press

Sinclair Lewis

#Life Is Hard Quotes #Reform Quotes #Want Quotes

“Find an organization, shoot them an email, call them up, find them on Facebook and say "Hey, I want to volunteer." And that first step could lead to a whole life of engagement. It could be a pretty exciting ride.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”
“A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.”
“I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.”
“I am a mom as well as a senator!”
“Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.”
“By that sin fell the angels.”
“There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.”

You may also like: