"In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict."

-- Astley Cooper

#Pain Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Danger Quotes

“We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...”
“The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.129, Spiegel & Grau
“While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.”
“Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.”
“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”
“My father tried to give me the sex talk once, and he chickened out. He walked into my room and went, 'Adam - uh, don't kiss guys.'”
“Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.”
“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.”

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