"Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue."

-- Laurence Sterne

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.”
“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.”
“Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.”

Source : "The Tories got it totally wrong on the recession: now they're getting it wrong on the recovery" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.
“A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.”
“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.”

Source : "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.
“Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is livingâ€¦. Could it be more perfect?”
“She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.”
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

Source : John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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