"I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again."

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Alison Croggon

#Cities Quotes #Complaining Quotes #Tedium Quotes

“When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.”
“Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.”

Source : "The Saddest Summer of Samuel S". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1966.
“I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)”
“Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.”
“I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.”
“I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.”
“I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.”

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