"How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian."

-- William Davenant

#Feet Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Heroic Quotes

“If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.”
“At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.10, Profile Books
“I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.”
“Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.”
“My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.”
“The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.”
“I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.”
“God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.”

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