Leslie > Leslie's Quotes

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.”
― Mort Sahl

“My life needs editing. ”
― Mort Sahl

“That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland

“This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland

“You haven't lived until you've died in California”
― Mort Sahl

“I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland

“The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958”
― Mort Sahl

“Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.”
― Mort Sahl

“A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.”
― Mort Sahl

“We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man”
― Mort Sahl

“The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland

“I don't think fascism is dying for.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland

“You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland

“We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland

“I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland

“Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, "Otto, let my people go!”
― Mort Sahl

“The bravest thing that men do is love women.”
― Mort Sahl

“Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.”
― Mort Sahl

“People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.”
― Mort Sahl

“I found people looked better when they laughed”
― Mort Sahl

“I took a course at Cal once called Statistical Analysis. And there was a guy in the course who used to make up all of his computations and he never used Sigma. He used his own initials. 'Cause he was the standard deviation.”
― Mort Sahl