"A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo."

-- Matt Berninger

#Opposites Quotes #Grace Quotes #Loser Quotes

“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.”

Source : Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”

Source : "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Cicero,
“I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.”
“After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.”
“The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.”
“Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.”
“Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (1965). “Theodore Dreiser; His Autobiography”

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