"When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did."

-- Logan Pearsall Smith

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes

“Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.”
“What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.”
“I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.”
“A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.”
“I try to catch my breath and calm myself down, but it isn't easy. I was dead. I was dead, and then i wasn't, and why? Because of Peter? Peter? I stare at him. He still looks so innocent, despite all that he has done to prove that he is not. His hair lies smooth against his head, shiny and dark, like we didn't just run for a mile at full speed. His round eyes scan the stairwell and then rest on my face. "What?" he says. "Why are you looking at me like that?" " How did you do it?" I say.”
“O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!”
“It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press
“How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”

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