Daily Quotes 4u

In the long run we are all dead (John Maynard Keynes)

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action (Alasdair McIntyre)

Repose not trust in testing another’s degree of honesty at the risk of one’s loss in matters big, unless collateralized (Firoozeh Dumas)

I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you’re going? It wasn’t a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn’t allow me to feel either great or miserable (Markus Zusak, Underdog)

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people (Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake)

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes (Mokokoma Mokhonoana)

While American football is very structured and linear and static – where everyone lines up, and there’s a burst, and it happens – soccer is like the cosmos. It’s like constellations. It’s bodies moving in space. It’s a very spherical game (Gabriel Luna)

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar (Alasdair Gray, Lanark)

Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall] (Dada Bhagwan)

Never let your emotions get so high that they flood your common sense (Steve Cross crossbytes)