"A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he still left with his hands"

-- Richard Siken

#Sadness Quotes #Men Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.”
“All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.”
“Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.”
“The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.”
“Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.”
“A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.”
“No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.”
“If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.”

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