#yin

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#generating #great #joy #multiplying #opportunities

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#hate #i #most #people #playing

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!' ↗

— Jane Pauley

#been #boss #cocoon #desk #fist

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#clever #enough #fall #first #him

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#crowd #dangerous #got #hotel #keep

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#champagne #coaster #comfortably #couple #drunk

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#get #i #me #newspapers #saying

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#exist #gas #gas chambers #i #myself

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#cannot #customers #goods #haven #into

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146) ↗