"He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia."

-- Louis de Bernieres

#Night Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.”

Source : "Matthew Gray Gubler: I really won the lottery with this show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 16, 2011.
“Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary by fire, that He cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers; while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt in the whole habitable earth, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts."”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1891). “The Sweet Story of Jesus: The Life of Christ”
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

Source : "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.
“If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.”
“Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?”
“What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.”
“Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.”
“...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."”

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