"To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors."

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Source : Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.149, Pickle Partners Publishing

Irving Stone

#Trying Quotes #Depth Quotes #Endeavor Quotes

“Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it.”

Source : M.C. Beaton (2009). “Death of a Poison Pen”, p.157, Hachette UK
“I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.”
“An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.”
“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.”

Source : "Fictional character: C.S Lewis (Jack)". "Shadowlands", 1993.
“Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.”

Source : Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.418, Butterworth-Heinemann
“It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.”
“The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).”
“Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.”

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