"The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body."

-- Jostein Gaarder

#Home Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Wings Quotes

“We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.”
“That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.”

Source : Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919). “The Physical basis of heredity”
“I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.88, Hachette UK
“I haven't really reached my peak yet.”
“Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.”
“The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.”
“Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.”

Source : Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.363, University of Chicago Press

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