"I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say."

-- Carly Simon

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.”
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living”, Hodder Paperbacks
“I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa”
“What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.”
“Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To love a thing means wanting it to live.”
“The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.”
“I think theres something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.”

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