"I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Doubt Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.”
“International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.”
“A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.”
“A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.”
“The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.”
“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”
“There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years laterand it's still doing damage.”
“The things that make us human often make us ill.”

Source : Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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