"He who chases two rabbits, catches none."

-- Confucius

#Two Quotes #Rabbits Quotes

“[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?”
“... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.”
“I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.”
“Make no mistake: Satanâ€™s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (â€œItâ€™s not fair!â€), or turn us on others (â€œItâ€™s their fault!â€), or turn us on ourselves (â€œIâ€™m so stupid!â€), we wonâ€™t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, weâ€™ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.”
“Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?”
“Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.”
“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.73, A&C Black

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