Drawing Room Furniture Quotes

#1. The piano is the social instrument par excellence ... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

Jacques Barzun

#2. Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

Charles E. Wilson

#3. You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Elizabeth Moon

#4. It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

Rachel Cusk

#5. Paul," he said, "do you think my life has meaning? Did I make the right choices?"

It was stunning: even someone I considered a moral examplar had these questions in the face of mortality.

Paul Kalanithi

#6. You must live a life of self-consciousness always

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself.

Casey James

#8. There's nothing wrong with being afraid. Everyone feels fear. But the day you let your fear control you is the day you stop living.

Samantha Towle

#9. I put the ick in magic.

Jim Butcher

#10. Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.

William Arthur Ward

#11. I'm not a nosy person, but I'm always thinking 'I wonder why he did that? I wonder why this week he was this much better than last week?' I'm always wanting to ask questions of people. I think my advice would be get involved locally and see where it takes you.

Jill Douglas

#12. One wall of the living room was almost entirely made up of tall windows, and the now-dark winter night seemed to enter the room without permission.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. We must never edit God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#14. Whatever your grievances, I'm sure we can address them without resorting to war," persisted Argyle ...
Nonsense," said the alien. "Do you know how many laborers and industries we'd put out of work if we were to stop the war just because a few bleeding hearts think we can talk out our grievances?

Mike Resnick