"It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that."

-- Mary Renault

#Regret Quotes #Believe Quotes #Men Quotes

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
“Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.”
“Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.”

Source : Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.36
“There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed â€“ sort of â€“ but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else.”
“Im not gay, but the man in my bed last night was.”
“Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.”
“It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.”
“Worn out places, worn out faces.”

Source : Song: Mad World {From Donnie Darko}, Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets, 2006

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