"I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, andâ€”if youâ€™re not carefulâ€”those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book."

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Source : Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.84, Macmillan

Brandon Sanderson

#Book Quotes #Tired Quotes #Trying Quotes

“[Donald Trump] is already in revenge mode.”
“Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want.”

Source : Jill A. Davis (2003). “Girls' Poker Night: A Novel of High Stakes”, p.6, Random House
“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”

Source : Address to the Canadian Club of Vancouver, October 14, 1952.
“Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.”

Source : Jeff Grubb, Gabriel Mesta, Tracy Hickman, Micky Neilson (2007). “The Starcraft Archive: An Anthology”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.171, Anchor
“I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.”
“There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'”
“As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most perfect mode of arrangement would certainly be to allow bodies to follow each other according to the order of their electro-chemical properties, from the most electro-negative, oxygen, to the most electro-positive, potassium; and to place every compound body according to its most electro-positive ingredient.”

Source : "An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy: By the Application of the Electro-Chemical Theory and the Chemical Proportions". Book by Jons Jacob Berzelius, 1814.

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