"The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists."

-- Gunter Grass

#Men Quotes #Oxen Quotes #Forever Quotes

“When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.”

Source : "Evel Knievel: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2007.
“When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true”
“Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?”
“If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.”
“Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.”

Source : "The Lights in the Sky are Stars".
“I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.”
“Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.”
“It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.”

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