"Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)"

-- David Baldacci

#Misplaced Quotes

“Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.”
“All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.”
“Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 20, 2005.
“Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.”
“I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.”
“The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2010). “Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008”, p.34, Oxford University Press
“If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.”
“Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.”

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