"When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy."

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Source : Greg Iles (2011). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

Greg Iles

#Differences Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Risk Quotes

“And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.”
“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.”

Source : Russ Shafer-Landau (2003). “Moral Realism: A Defence”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand
“People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.”
“We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.”

Source : "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.
“Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.”
“From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.”

Source : "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.
“Our dreams make us large.”

Source : "Ava DuVernay Will Be the First Black Woman to Direct a DC Superhero Movie" by Julyssa Lopez, www.glamour.com. March 16, 2018.
“I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It's a push.”

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