"Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle."

-- Winston Churchill

#Fighting Quotes #Battle Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.”
“A minute of success pays for years of failure.”
“[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books
“I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!”
“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
“There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death.”
“It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.”

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