"The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety."

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Source : Osbert Lancaster (1958). “Here, of All Places”

Osbert Lancaster

#Blessing Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.”
“In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.”
“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, â€˜We came in peace for all Mankind.â€™ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”
“The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.426, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.”
“I think rejection is a huge part of the business and there's so many cute girls that grow up with kind of being adored or people kind of bending over backwards for them. I see a lot of girls who aren't used to rejection because of that, and now all of a sudden they drop out of the business.”
“I am Tina Yothers and I'll never be anyone different.”
“The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.”

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