"My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes."

-- Thomas E. Dewey

#Decision Quotes #Matter Quotes #Finals Quotes

“Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers”

Source : Chinelo Okparanta (2013). “Happiness, Like Water”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”
“He who is greedy is always in want.”
“Everything can always be different!”
“If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.”
“There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived the lives of all the characters of the songs I've written, that would truly be an extraordinary story.”

Source : 2001 In the Daily Telegraph, 20 Oct.
“There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.”
“A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.”

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