Hershelman Lewes Quotes

#1. We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces ...

Blaise Pascal

#2. I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied to my pager and my cellphone.

Jane Clayson

#3. It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all

William Makepeace Thackeray

#4. I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

Roscoe Mitchell

#5. Information is freely available everywhere now. The question is whether you know what to do with it.

William Deresiewicz

#6. I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do ... and all that.

Patrick Marber

#7. But don't worry," she continued. "Most snakes don't want to hurt you. If you're out in the bush and a snake comes along, just stop dead and let it slide over your shoes."
This, I decided, was the least-likely-to-be-followed advice I have ever been given.

Bill Bryson

#8. She greeted me very happily and asked if the children had been bad. To me, that was a strange question--in my culture, we expect children to be bad and good, and that parents will teach them the difference.

Mini Aodla Freeman

#9. Not everything that tastes good is good!

Eric Plotts

#10. To be taken seriously, try being educated instead of opinionated.

Jeffrey Fry

#11. No one would ever demand compensation to keep people alive. You make us sound like monsters, as if people wouldn't help others unless they got something out of it.

Michael J. Sullivan

#12. I was never meant to be this thing...

Shane L. Koyczan

#13. There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

Dominique Pire