"The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life."

-- Bill Maher

#Hard Times Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.”

Source : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”
“There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.”
“If we, like the Savior, have the faith to put our trust in our Father in Heaven, to submit to His will, the true spirit of peace will come as a witness and strength that He has heard and answered our prayers.”
“I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.”
“This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.”
“You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.”
“Fathers and mothers,â€ she found herself saying, â€œleave their mark, no matter if weâ€™ve known them a lifetime or only a day.”
“Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.”

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