#thou

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#notions #ordinary #ordinary people #out #people

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. ↗

— Ben Stein

#devolved #god #history #i #mankind

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was. ↗

— Ben Stein

#dr #father #go #grown #how

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over. ↗

— Ben Stein

#days #easy #life #money #my life

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#inevitable #occurring #sadness #shock #simply

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#between #brings #choose #courses #death

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#fingers #i #letter #long #long time

Time is the only critic without ambition. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#critic #only #time #without

Without trying, I'm different. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#i #trying #without

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#become #building #draw #frightening #lines