"I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing."

-- George Eliot

#Thinking Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“I think, more importantly, it's about who is your core team? Who are the people around you that are going to fight for you and make sure that's all protected?”
“Let the business shape the organization, not the organization shape the business.”

Source : Richard Moran (2009). “Nuts, Bolts and Jolts”, p.108, iUniverse
“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.”
“If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!”

Source : Ernst Rohm's remark on the day he was killed, as quoted in Laura Ward "Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells" (p. 68), 2004.
“People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.”
“Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.”

Source : "Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. December 9, 2015.
“The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.”
“To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.”

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