Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.


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This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER
And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.
DEMETRI MARTIN
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You might as well say we're one big family, since that's the way we treat each other.
MICHAEL SMITH
Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
She really is a shining star. Imagine how far she's come since she was on the farm in Ohio. She's ou...
DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE
Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
JENNIFER SCHMIDT
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pa...
KENNETH TYNAN
Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses...
DOROTHY PARKER
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
Our freshmen haven't played as well since we shook it up earlier. So I think we might go with some n...
AMBER MAGNER
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
I wouldn't feel comfortable riding a bus with cameras on it. It's like we don't have Big Brother as ...
TONY STEWART
When a team shoots as well as they were... it's hard to beat them. That's about all you can say abou...
JARED GOBEL
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of...
ORIGEN
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER
JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not lik...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Women always did all the work anyway, so we might as well get credit for it,
MARTHA COAKLEY
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken.
JOHN LEACH
All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fil...
DEYTH BANGER
Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.
NORA ROBERTS
You might as well say it's amnesty.
AL GARZA
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
VINCENT CANBY
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened.
GORDON KORMAN
As soon as we went a little further north though, we didn't see them any more. We might have been on...
JOE JONES
Well, I figured we might as well do it. Andy looked ready.
LARRY TOFANELLI
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
[Comparing the two actors,] Jarhead ... They're alike in some ways, both great listeners, but they r...
SAM MENDES
As we approached New Year's Eve, it was easier. We felt we were not on the fringe or edge. This was ...
IRENE DILLON
If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM
As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be...
VINCENT CANBY
As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP
If we all dress alike, we might as well all work in cubicles.
BENNY CASSETTE
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? O...
KATE DICAMILLO
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS)
We might as well open it up entirely and pollute the entire state.
MARK GERAGOS
You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT
It doesn't suit him as well as it might suit some others.
MIKE TICE
Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that...
MAUREEN CHILD
Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER
You definitely felt it out there. We were all on the edge of our seats at that point.
MAURA ROCHE
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT
We might have even tipped the ball as she shot it, but we were right up on her defending and she sti...
JOSH MONTGOMERY
The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo ...
A.S. PETERSON
The new scoring system is here to stay, it's not going anywhere. We might as well embrace it.
SCOTT HAMILTON
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
KIN HUBBARD
Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing e...
DARRYL PINCKNEY
The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world per...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.
GAY TALESE
Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
At some point in our existence, we all wanted things in our lives as it is and we didn't want it to ...
KIM SEGURA ENCARNACION
Derek told us how great it was there and it sounded like a better deal than the places we were at. W...
BRIAN IDALSKI
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
JIM COURIER
Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cau...
DOROTHY PARKER
I thought, 'well might as well do it,' even though I don't know how to run it. We were good buddies ...
BRENT NERBY
We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
DALAI LAMA
Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on i...
CY COLEMAN
We lacked a cutting edge at times but I thought we were worth more than a point and I think that's a...
HENRI CAMARA
Getting ready to start dancing in the rain, I might as well since it's not going away.
KēVENS
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it be...
EDWARD GREY
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and tur...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and ...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI
But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Fallin...
RICK YANCEY
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
Say wharever you choose about the object, and wharever you might say it is not. Or, in other words: ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us...
C.S. LEWIS
I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES
VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM
We've even seen a few homes that you might as well say have been totally demolished -- it looked lik...
WAYNE COUTTS
It finally puts Pennsylvania on a competitive edge, you might say, with some of our neighboring stat...
JAY WIEDERHOLD
We are working on them, and we will try to get to them as quickly as we can. It's only been a month ...
BILL SWANK
Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous ...
RICHARD PREECE
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
CARRIE FISHER
We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about w...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
If you get an idea, you might as well stick with it until somebody calls you on it.
MICHAEL IAN BLACK
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS
We've used it for everything from funerals to potlucks. We might as well use it for Pete.
CANDY KALAL
We're going to be as prepared as we can be. Everybody knows that everything is riding on this appeal...
DENNIS KOEHLER
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER
You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We c...
STEVE HARVEY

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but two wholes when t...
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First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t...
PETER KLINE
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
PETER DRUCKER
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
PETER LYNCH
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETER TOWNSEND
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are tau...
PETER USTINOV
Decision making is the specific executive task.
PETER DRUCKER
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
PETER WASTHOLM
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s...
PETER QUENNELL
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance...
PETER CONRAD
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do no...
PETER DRUCKER
All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though ...
PETER KLINE
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
PETER DRUCKER
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was ...
PETER DRUCKER
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless...
PETER MARSHALL
Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t...
PETER TOWNSEND
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
PETER DRUCKER
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
PETER DRUCKER
I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
PETER JENNINGS
So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
PETER TOWNSEND
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to d...
PETER DRUCKER
There are no creeds in mathematics.
PETER DRUCKER
Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
PETER DRUCKER
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
PETER DRUCKER
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
PETER DRUCKER
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
PETER DRUCKER
INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor...
PETER DRUCKER
Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps t...
PETER RUSSELL
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and ex...
PETER ABELARD
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you...
PETER LYNCH
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out a...
PETER DRUCKER