Misery's the river of the world. Everybody row!

Misery is the River of the World

— Tom Waits

“The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail. Call no man happy till he dies, there's no milk at…

— Tom Waits

“Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

— Laozi

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

— Sherman Alexie

“Look closer. The river's its own world of fast and slow, deep and shallow, bright and shadowed. If you look at it like that,…

— Cynthia Hand

Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in…

— Bob Marshall

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know…

— Kenneth Grahame

In a perfect world, everybody would be gay. I mean if everybody looked like Zach Braff, you just wouldn't be able to resist.

— Zach Braff

There is enough in this world for everybody's needs, but not enough for certain people's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

— John Cabrera

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

— Tom Clancy

We spend trillions of dollars to travel around the world, but it's in everybody's interest that we have a better framework, and not just…

— Hillary Clinton

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

— Paul Allen

We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBron, the next big Twitter.

— Shaquille O'Neal