"[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought."

-- Beryl Markham

#Men Quotes #Lions Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways,”
“A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life.”

Source : "My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands". Book by Totaram Sanadhya, 1991.
“I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me”
“Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.”
“I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.”
“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”
“Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.”

Source : Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.5, Hoover Press
“The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.”

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