#sofa

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dependence #his #insofar #only #opportunities

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#additional #also #better #big #consists

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#answers #anxiety #away #disturbing #honest

My own family were far from perfect, yet I thanked the Lord that I had them, even if they did sometimes make me want to kill them all. ↗

— Wade Chris

#family #family

The man lying on the sofa seemed friendly. But how friendly could he really be if he was a liar?
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— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #liar #lying #man #paradox

You'll never know what psychopathic heights you're capable of, just lying there on the sofa ↗

— Josh Stern

#humor-inspirational #psycopaths #sofa #inspirational

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#madness #sofa #life

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#meaning-of-life #sofa #life

I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#especially #i #living #moment #moments