"Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild."

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Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1851). “Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series”, p.342

Augustus William Hare

#Running Quotes #Men Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.”
“I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.”
“Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.”
“There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.”
“I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.”
“To pray well one must pray much.”

Source : Georgia Elma Harkness (1948). “Prayer and the common life”

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