"It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts."

-- R. A. Salvatore

#Stars Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Apples Quotes

“I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.”

Source : Andrew Johnson's Inaugural Address, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1865.
“Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false”
“So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."”
“It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.”
“Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.”
“Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.”
“We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.”

Source : Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.
“Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2009). “The Gate to Women's Country”, p.123, Spectra

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