"Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand."

-- Jules Verne

#Hands Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.”
“I'm from a Gypsy background!”
“You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.”

Source : Amby Burfoot (2005). “Runner's World Complete Book of Beginning Running”, p.47, Rodale
“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”
“I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.”
“It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.”
“It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.”
“I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."”

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