"tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ..."

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Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.213, Vintage

Sigrid Undset

#Thinking Quotes #Dare Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Love is for children and dimwads.”
“I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.”
“If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.”

Source : Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.”
“But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or GÃ¶del's intuition.”
“I don't wish my career on anyone.”
“I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.”

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