"You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away."

-- Anthony Horowitz

#Miles Quotes #Miles Away Quotes

“Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.”
“What matters to you defines your mattering.”
“Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.8, New York Review of Books
“Success is the reward for toil.”
“It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.”

Source : "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.
“Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.”
“Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.”
“A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.”

Source : Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 5, ch. 7 (1880)

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