"The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart."

-- Wilson Mizner

#Heart Quotes #Greed Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.”
“Try to capture what you can't bear to be without”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.29, The Overlook Press
“Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.”
“Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.”
“Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.”
“My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight. Moreover ... the operations that fill most of the time allegedly devoted to technical thinking are operations that can be performed more effectively by machines than by men.”

Source : "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011
“Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”

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