"The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random."

-- Donald Knuth

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Sun Quotes

“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.”
“I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.”
“For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.”
“Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.”
“Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.”
“Toupée or not toupée for professional government: that is the hair-raising question created by Donald Trump's candidacy.”
“On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to believe in the overruling goodness, providence, and sovereignty of God and refuse to turn aside no matter what may come, no matter how we may feel. I mistakenly thought I could not trust God unless I felt like trusting Him. Now I am learning that trusting God is first of all a matter of the will. I choose to trust in God, and my feelings eventually follow.”
“A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 19, 2012

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