Michael Laney

“...what they show tells you what they want to hide.”
― Craig Clevenger, The Contortionist's Handbook

“It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it!”
― Emil Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms

“We tend to resolve our perplexity arising out of the experience that other people see the world differently than we see it ourselves by declaring that these others, in consequence of some basic intellectual and moral defect, are unable to see things “as they really are” and to react to them “in a normal way.” We thus imply, of course, that things are in fact as we see them, and that our ways are the normal ways. (Ichheiser, 1949, p. 39)”
― Thomas Gilovich, Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations