#thing

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#emptiness #evil #greatest #hardest #hide

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#men #much #things #want #weary

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#difficulty #empty #forcing #head #hence

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#frustration #greater #lack #less #many

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#becoming #fear #has-been #keeps #people

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#does #hire #important #important thing #mayor

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#drinking #give #got #guy #haven

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#always #another #any #anything #how

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#acoustic guitar #adding #doing #emphasis #folk