"I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything."

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Vikram Seth

#Order Quotes #Laziness Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.”
“Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.”
“Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.”

Source : Jack Campbell (2008). “The Lost Fleet: Valiant”, p.184, Penguin
“If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?”
“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).
“Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
“I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.”

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