"Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Doing Nothing Quotes

“I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.”
“When there is pressure for leaders to respond to problems or crises, they often simply intensify their efforts in their particular defined sphere of activity - even if that's not relevant to the real problem. To do otherwise requires taking on entrenched practices and asserting power in areas where it often will not be well received. And leaders tend to see major crises more as threats to their own position rather than as systemic challenges for the societies that they govern or the institutions that they manage.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.”
“I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate from the first nanosecond of creation to the last 10^10 years, on the basis of three or four facts which are not very accurately known and are disputed among the experts.”
“No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.”
“I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.”

Source : Patrick Swayze's last words, as quoted by his family, prior to his death from pancreatic cancer, 2009.
“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”
“Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu”

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