"It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility"

-- George Santayana

#Men Quotes #Easy Quotes #Unhappiness Quotes

“When a lot of people are calling you crazy: you're either crazy, or you're onto something.”
“The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?”

Source : Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books
“Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship between my own bodily functions and the psychological and emotional issues that emerged.”
“Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.”
“Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.”
“What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.”

Source : Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”
“Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.”
“Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.”

Source : Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand

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