"Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears."

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

#Fancy Quotes #Vain Quotes #Idle Quotes

“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”
“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”
“I'm an actress, not a celebrity.”
“If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.”
“For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises donâ€™t matter as much as personal choice.”
“Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you”
“Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.”

Source : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.93, Penguin
“I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.”

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