If you can live while doing what you love, then you are already a success (Debasish Mridha)
I think I’m coming up on the ess curve, so I’m going to hang up and concentrate on driving. In the snow. Which wasn’t supposed to happen until tomorrow afternoon.Gee, Kels, I didn’t know you believed in the weatherman. Do you still believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, too? How about the Easter Bunny?All right. Point taken
I think I’m coming up on the ess curve, so I’m going to hang up and concentrate on driving. In the snow. Which wasn’t supposed to happen until tomorrow afternoon.Gee, Kels, I didn’t know you believed in the weatherman. Do you still believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, too? How about the Easter Bunny?All right. Point taken (Lani Aames, Ellora’s Cavemen: Tales from the Temple I)
If your eyes could speak, what would they say? – Markus Zusak
If your eyes could speak, what would they say? – Markus Zusak
Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth
Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth (Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead)
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time. (Joseph Bottum)
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated – every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated – every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young (Mark Helprin)
Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere
Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere (Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys)
I’m really very sorry for you all, but it’s an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances
I’m really very sorry for you all, but it’s an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances (W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado)
I don’t see why there should be a point where everyone decides you’re too old. I’m not too old, and until I decide I’m too old I’ll never be too fucking old
I don’t see why there should be a point where everyone decides you’re too old. I’m not too old, and until I decide I’m too old I’ll never be too fucking old (Lemmy Kilmister)
…[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, …accomplishes… little… [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it
![...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it](https://i0.wp.com/dailyquotes4u.org/images/newquotes01/moral-instruction-although-containing-much-that-is-convincing-for-the-reason-accomplishes-little-bec-zlyyj.jpg "...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it")
…[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, …accomplishes… little… [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it (Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals)