"I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good."

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Source : John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

John Corey Whaley

#Long Quotes #Enough Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
“I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.”
“Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord." In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being." Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.”
“A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.”
“A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.”
“I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.”
“We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.”

Source : Rosemary Sutcliff (1981). “The sword and the circle: King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table”, Vintage
“Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.”

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