""I can't sleep" answered the nervous one. "Why not?" asked the friend. "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?" "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend."

-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.”
“The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.”
“Principles have a way of yielding to power.”
“If were honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you dont believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?”
“There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.”
“When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.”
“I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, â€œOh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking .”
“The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press

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