"It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again."

-- Bernhard Schlink

#Running Quotes #Risk Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.”
“All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius.”

Source : "Dr. No". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 15: Pandora's Box, 1958.
“For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.”

Source : "Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting'". Der Spiegel interview, en.chessbase.com. October 1, 2008.
“When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece”
“Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any man that had any fancy at all.”
“In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.”
“I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”
“A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.”

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