"The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind."

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Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, 1930.

F. H. Bradley

#Water Quotes #Mind Quotes #Hunters Quotes

“The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.”
“Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”
“I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.”
“I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.”
“I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.”
“The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2015). “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, p.146, Booklassic
“I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.”

Source : "Coolidge Makes the Album of Her Dreams". JazzReview Interview, www.jazzreview.com. August 1, 2005.
“Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.”

Source : "Howard Wilkinson's LMA survey reveals depth of managers' dedication" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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