"One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Time Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Might Quotes

“We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.”

Source : "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.
“We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.”
“I am a foodie. I'm not afraid to say it.”
“Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.”
“Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?”

Source : Adam Weishaupt (2013). “The Illuminati Manifesto”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc
“If misery loves company, misery has company enough.”
“Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.”

Source : William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.485
“Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories”, p.143, New York Review of Books

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