"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

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Source : 'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

Walter Bagehot

#Pain Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Human Nature Quotes

“If I ever get Manziel disease, I want all of you to smack me in the head with your microphones”

Source : "Jameis Winston hits on Manziel, Major League at FSU media day" by Ken Bradley, www.sportingnews.com. August 11, 2013.
“The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.”
“Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.”
“It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.”
“I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.”
“If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.”
“I was thinking Claire Danes [wardrobe I was obsessed with], since you said My So-Called Life, but that is a little grungy for me.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other's arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.10, Counterpoint Press

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