"The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing."

-- Benjamin Hoff

#Simple Quotes #Trying Quotes #Saving Quotes

“People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.”
“Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.”
“You have to drink when it's hard dealing with things when you're sober.”
“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”

Source : Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. September 6, 2006.
“You do get the pregnant mush-brain... you know what it's like? It's like getting stoned.”
“Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.”
“My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.”
“Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal”

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