"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."

-- Mark Twain

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Atheist Quotes

“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.10, Open Road Media
“If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not going to force that. I'll just take a mental vacation. I think the best solution sometimes to working out a problem is to walk squarely away from it.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo”
“While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.”
“Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.”
“We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.”
“Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.”

Source : "Louis Armstrong - The Reluctant Millionaire". "Ebony" Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 1, November 1964.
“For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.”

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