FastSaying

She ate like a little pig and she was always big and heavy. It stuck and we could never quite get rid of it.


Eric Forsman

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES She looks like a sweet little lamb from afar, but when you get close, you find out she skinned and a...
J.J. MCAVOY [The show] is like a big party. We start off heavy and fast and always get the crowd into it.
BRENDAN WALTER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN She knew she was overextended, but she couldn't help herself. Student, tree lover, citizen of the Ea...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN She looks like a sweet little lamb from afar, but when you get close, you find out she skinned and a...
J.J. MCAVOY Megan had become a walking, talking piece of evidence. She knew him. She could identify him. He knew...
KATHRYN FLICKER I was not the one she was destined to say yes to. It was someone else, someone human and warm. And I...
STEPHENIE MEYER I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things tha...
CARRIE RYAN She got stuck under the house, and I could hear her meowing, and I couldn't get her. She was 13 year...
DIANE WHITE My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go '...
ZACK SNYDER Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Ok...
M.T. ANDERSON She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR If she has a good season and she wants to be the big gun and get it done, then she may see a little ...
AMY EVANS She was never known as a feminist. She would never admit to it, but I think deep down she was. She f...
WILDA SMITH Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She ...
ANN BRASHARES It was bad. The little girl had two black eyes. She looked more like a little boy than a little girl...
AWILDA CORDERO She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around...
JODI PICOULT Nice, Dex,” she sneered. “You couldn’t wait to get in her pants, could you? You’re a pig.”...
KARINA HALLE Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A sma...
E.B. WHITE It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look frie...
RICK YANCEY She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of i...
MARY ALLSEBROOK I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too.
MARKUS ZUSAK She was Anna and that was it. There was not a vain bone in her body. She dressed simply, but always ...
HELEN LINHART Never wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
ANONYMOUS I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
BRYAN ADAMS It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a worl...
L.M. MONTGOMERY When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the m...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ...
GILLIAN FLYNN Most of the staff was much younger, but she was always the first one up and the last to bed. She nev...
JEANNE CLARK She was always like a big sister to me.
MICHAEL HANCOCK We knew she could handle it. She always does.
LAUREN DUSIN She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.
UNKNOWN That was a big play for us. We had a big hole to fill at catcher and it looks like she may be capabl...
BOB KALP It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a f...
ROBERT NEWTON PECK My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and vo...
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she wa...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Melissa popped open the clattery little Rotring tin. Pencils, putty rubber, scalpel. She sharpened a...
MARK HADDON She takes it all in stride. That's her job and she's very accountable. If we don't win, she finds a ...
MUFFET MCGRAW My mom always said she wanted to get through life without ever learning how to use a computer. But p...
FRANCES KRUG She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you t...
CORNELIA FUNKE I was always impressed with how hard she played and that hasn't changed since she's been here. I kne...
BOBBY BATES She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her hea...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there ...
REBECCA MCNUTT Carol had a nice vault. It was solid and she stuck both landings. It was a nice tight vault.
CARLA PETERSON My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish...
TOM FORD Here's a cute little fish. It kind of looks like a pig and it squawks and everything.
CHUCK JOHNSTON Here's a cute little fish. It kind of looks like a pig, and it squawks and everything.
CHUCK JOHNSTON Usually if she didn't see this one employee she would leave ranting and raving. I could see her maki...
CARLOS MONTOYA She's a great player and a great leader. It was gutsy of her to come back and do what she did. She a...
MANSON HILL Once you're in the military, she means a lot more to you than just a grandmother. She is the que...
PRINCE HARRY Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought ...
KIERSTEN WHITE She mixes up the ball so much you never really get any rhythm, and finally I got a little more consi...
LINDSAY DAVENPORT She was very smart, a really sharp kid -- she could have done anything she put her mind to. We calle...
CONNIE KYRIACOU Maggie really gave us a big boost. She picked up that third foul and I was a little worried about it...
DAVE POWER We started to get a little nervous, because we knew the whole season was on the line. So we took a d...
CAITLIN HYDUKE She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminder...
JAMES S.A. COREY Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we at...
LONI LOVE Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago�...
KIERSTEN WHITE K.B. — she just took over. She put her heart and soul into it. She never came out of the game, and ...
MARC HIGDON You get that first one in, you get a little confidence and then you can go back and serve a little t...
LARRY CAMPBELL there’s an eager flame, spreading like wildfire, that has existed inside of her for as long as she...
CHEZIA That was a big, big part of the game. She (Davis) is a great shooter, and she doesn't miss foul shot...
PETE HOLLON And she was really good at that: even since she was a little girl, she could eliminate the hours, kn...
NICOLA LECCA She was never a dull moment. All she really needed was a pen and paper, and she could sit there and ...
MARK SIGANA She really stuck her neck out for us politically, and we appreciated it.
DENNIS CUNEO My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead...
LARK VOORHIES ...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because sh...
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS She looked like a little old man. She wasn't plump like a baby should be. She was skin and bones.
ELIZABETH THATCHER It never occurred to us that something like this could happen. We're just glad she was so brave, and...
MARK STERN She was alive, and she was stuck in this fucking tunnel, and she had just broken a fuck of a hex war...
STACIA KANE I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was ...
ALEX CLARE She was fronting and we pushed back a little tonight. It was a physical game.
HOLLY MISTO She supported everything, she was there for every game. She would go full out, she never just wore n...
JENNIFER KIMBALL I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myse...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER It looked like everyone was a little slow and lethargic. We didn't get after it, we didn't get out a...
BARRY JOHNSON She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of.
LEIGH BARDUGO I was so glad to see Gina get it tonight. What's impressed me most about her is how she got it. She ...
BOB CONDRICK Her growth in maturity has been tremendous. You know when she first arrived in the fall she was like...
DEE BELL She was a little hesitant at first. But after she saw it, she liked it. She liked that it dealt with...
CRAIG EVANS She never gave a customer a claim ticket - she could remember everybody's coat. It really was remark...
FRANK MANGIERI She is handling it really well, despite everything going on, and it's been so hard on her and her fa...
LAVINIA MANN CUMMINGS I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.
BETH JONES Claire sighed. She supposed people always did like that sort of girl, and always would. And secretly...
RACHEL CAINE People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford ch...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate....
CHRISTOPHER MELONI Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to ...
IAN JACKSON It seemed like she was always away because even when she was home she seemed preoccupied.
SHANNAN APRILE It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handl...
ROBERT M. DRAKE I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
CYRUS CHING No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she coul...
LAURA LEE GUHRKE It is quite a mystery for everybody who this little dog is and where she came from. She is very comf...
CARLEEN NEWMAN She hustled on that swinging bunt down to first and beat it out, she made a couple of defensive play...
RICH FULCHER Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE She's an incredible optimist. Every time there was a problem, she had a positive read. She never gav...
DAVID ASHLEY Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and ...
CATHERINE MARSHALL

More Eric Forsman

She was a pretty special owl, and she made a huge contribution in terms of educating kids and the pu...
ERIC FORSMAN Neither of them look too happy; it really kind of captured the whole controversy.
ERIC FORSMAN It was an entry form to the dreaded Q School. ''That's how things are going.
DAN FORSMAN The awards event was a rare opportunity for our Prudential family to come together and honor each ot...
DAN FORSMAN My putting stats [140th] for the tour are weak,
DAN FORSMAN I made a good swing at 14, but it came out to the right,
DAN FORSMAN The conditions are fantastic, ... I can't believe how well it drained ... And we might need that, ri...
DAN FORSMAN And I made a discovery last night. I told my wife I made a discovery, and sure enough today I was ma...
DAN FORSMAN At that point, the momentum had switched entirely, and now it was whether or not I can par the rest ...
DAN FORSMAN It's getting my eyes over the ball,
DAN FORSMAN It seems like a lifetime ago. You knew what it meant at the time. It's a lot of golf to be one shot ...
DAN FORSMAN Some people have already written him off, thinking, He's never going to be the guy. That has taken s...
DAN FORSMAN I was a little quick and stabbing at the ball last week at the 84 Lumber, and this week I'm a little...
DAN FORSMAN I've been pretty sloppy. I've had too much movement. I think I'm more in control now.
DAN FORSMAN You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

ERIC HOFFER Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER Remembering​ ​is​ ​something​ ​God​ ​asks​ ​us​ ​to​ ​do​ ​over​ �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
ERIC HOFFER