One sometimes finds what one is not looking for

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

Kamila Shamsie

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

Shaquille O'Neal

The thing that would astonish anyone coming for the first time into the service quarters of a hotel would be the fearful noise and disorder during rush hours. It is something so different from the steady work in a shop or a factory that it looks at first sight like mere bad management. But it is really quite unavoidable...by its nature it comes in rushes and cannot be economized. You cannot, for instance, grill a steak two hours before it is wanted; you have to wait till the last moment, by which time a mass of other work has accumulated, and then to do it all together, in frantic haste. The result is that at meal-times everyone is doing two men's work, which is impossible without noise and quarreling. Indeed the quarrels are a necessary part of the process, for the pace would never be kept up if everyone did not accuse everyone else of idling. It was for this reason that during rush hours the whole staff cursed like demons.

George Orwell, Down and Out in P

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Walter Savage Landor

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

James Agee

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Jerry Gillies

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Edward Gibbon

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Sigmund Freud

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

Bob Graham

I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.

John Robinson

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt