"People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate."

-- Rickey Henderson

#People Quotes #Reason Quotes #Plates Quotes

“...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.”
“It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.”
“[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.”
“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”
“If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.”

Source : "Chuck Palahniuk Answers Your Questions About Everything but His Books". Answers to A.V. Club readers' questions, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.
“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”
“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry-Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”

Source : The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 91, No. 9, (p. 594), November 1984.
“For some interesting reason, I also like a guy who has a littte bit of a belly. I think that's really cute.”

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