It just wasn’t good enough for the standards I expect.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare: Twelfth-Night
“I am trying to stop!”
Good, bad, I’m the one with the gun.
Not everybody is exactly like you.
“Ladies and gentlemen…We got him.”
“That’s not chocolate.”
“I’ll take full responsibility for whatever happens.”
“I must’ve left it in my other pants.”
I have taken to using this in response to the question, “Where’s your sense of adventure?”. Especially since that question is usually used to get you to do something really stupid.
You may be a one in a million kind of a guy, but in a world of six billion people, that means there are sixty thousand just like you. That’s the big picture. - A. Whitney Brown
Hey, that’s two sentences!
No it isn’t!
Well, lessee… here’s one. And here’s another one. That makes… one each.
I’m not that good at the higher maths.
watch this.
Look, I can see your house from here.
He’s dead, Jim.
I regret to inform you…
When I’m good I’m good, but when I’m bad I’m better.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
This too shall pass.
From the * Dyer Tri-City Reporter* in my hometown of 2,000 in 1971:
(This was not a misprint.)