#san

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. ↗

— James Thurber

#average #banquet #begins #calls #end

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#always #any #end #exists #hence

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#free #insane #laugh #learning #lies

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#ended #first #five #francisco #holiday

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. ↗

— Charles Edison

#after #am #bickering #capacity #civil

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#day #hundred #i #imagine #most

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#even #healthy #i #partisan #party

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#become #business #characters #face #fuzzy

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#nature #percent #revealed #still #thousandth

Sanctions are a bad idea. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#bad idea #idea #sanctions