Daniel Handler Quotes

The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is 'Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War One is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand'. -Lemony Snicket

Daniel Handler

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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

V. S. Naipaul
- Up
- World
- Children
I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.

Dan Gilbert
- Think
- House
- Generation
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

Ira Glass
- People
- World
- School
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

F. W. de Klerk
- Time
- Long
- War
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Omar N. Bradley
- World
- Man
- Humanity
Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

J. C. Watts
- Believe
- Trying
- House