"Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice."

-- James Patterson

#Smart Quotes #Humor Quotes #Two Quotes

“Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.”

Source : "The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalised". Interview with Truman Capote in Kyoto, Japan, www.theguardian.com. 1957.
“You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.”
“Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.”

Source : Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.179, David C Cook
“I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!”
“Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .”
“And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I had a wife at home who loved me, or later that my wife had left me and I was terrirfied, or again later that I had a beautiful alcoholic girlfriend who would make me happy forever. But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.”
“I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.”
“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”

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