Evan Esar Quotes

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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• I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Want
  • Basketball

• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Lies

• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Vessel
  • Draft

• When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

  

  Halle Berry

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Gold
  • Logic

• Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Good
  • Poetry

• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Present
  • Intelligent
  • Stock

• The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Political
  • Air

• My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • Music
  • Father
  • Car

• I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Animal

• We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Men
  • Law
  • Color

• If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music

• Why not add benefits for making healthy food choices, provide a transition bonus for getting off food stamps, or increase job training opportunities and income - raising minimum wage?

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Why
  • Job
  • Food

• Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Joy
  • Goal
  • Destiny

• Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • God
  • Remember

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Religious
  • Profound
  • Disappointment

• Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Hope
  • Disappointment
  • Veneer