Zoë Heller Quotes
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.
When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.
A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.
Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.
I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.
All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.
Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends.
Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.
She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.
You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.
But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.
I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.
That goddam stunted, red-faced, big-cheeked, apple-cheeked, curlyheaded, midget assed, , google-eyed, undersized, grinning, buck-toothed rat!!" Yossarian sputtered.~ Catch-22
And my heart is breakingMy heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tearsI keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered
I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.
Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe.
If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but do the work required to make the point of view an informed one.
Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.
He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.
Some Buddhists have criticized secular Buddhism because they think it waters down Buddhism. I like to think of it as adding Buddhist flavoring to the sparkling water of secularism.
It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no matter how closely, to be different from another.
It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.
So I wonder what it is this need to tell.To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.
...You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, ” Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
I didn't want to tell him that I was so wet that Noah would have had to build an ark to avoid the flood in my pants - Moxie
When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.
The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, "No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.
He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.
I'm amazed how my soul is served the messages I need to be fed at exactly the time I'm in need. When I'm open.
CIOs, more than any other executive, have an end-to-end view of how the business works and the tools to turn that view into insights. CIOs can see endless opportunities for improvement and change.
People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way--at least initially.
Things that are truly innocent don’t need to be labelled as such.
Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do, " Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?