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“I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.”
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“You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.”
Source : Kathryn Hulme (1956). “The Nun's Story”, Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown
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“There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.”
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“The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.”
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“In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.”
Source : "Michele Bachmann's Holy War". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 22, 2011. 
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“Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.”
Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.454, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.”
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“The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella?”
