"I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets."

-- Loudon Wainwright III

#Grateful Quotes #Years Quotes #Eggs Quotes

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
“We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.”

Source : Vera Brittain (2009). “Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925”, p.337, Hachette UK
“I want enough time to be in love with everythingÂ .Â .Â .”
“Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information. .... He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan. ... He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own.”
“Do you always throw your money away like this?" "Only when I'm in love,”
“Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.”
“I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.”
“Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.”

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