"Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing."

-- Frederick The Great

#Hurt Quotes #Blow Quotes #People Quotes

“art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ...”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
“Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.”
“I didn't say anything. Got nothing to say. I'm a married man; I don't need a relationship with another man.”
“If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though that's a different proposition.”

Source : "Hell Isn't (Necessarily) Other People". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2010.
“We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.”
“In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.”
“I live in a constituency that is quite rural, there are some very successful hunts there that are abiding by the law as it stands now but who are very often pointing out to me the consequences of the need to exterminate vermin, which foxes are, and the consequences of trying to shoot them and winging them and so on.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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