"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains."

-- H. Emilie Cady

#Men Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Pebbles Quotes

“Don't turn around. 'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.”
“Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.”

Source : Jeffrey Stepakoff (2011). “The Orchard: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.”

Source : John Zerzan (2002). “Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation”
“I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”
“All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.”
“If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that no mathematician of any age or country has ever surpassed Gauss in the combination of an abundant fertility of invention with an absolute vigorousness in demonstration...”

Source : Henry John Stephen Smith (1965). “Collected Mathematical Papers”, p.74, American Mathematical Soc.
“Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.”
“In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.”

Source : George Barr McCutcheon (2013). “The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.2049, Wildside Press LLC

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