"Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Friends Quotes #Wise Quotes #Surly Quotes

“If we get total certainty, we get â€¦ bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.”
“What we prepare for is what we shall get”
“Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.”
“We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.”
“It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.”
“When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.”
“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?”

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