"I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here."

-- David Byrne

#Thinking Quotes #Balance Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
“A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.”

Source : Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.477, Hachette UK
“The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard as the male's fists. Obviously, the rumours about the instructor were all true. He was a flat-out killer. With a metal clank, a door opened at the other end of the gym, and the sound of a newborn's cries echoed up into the high ceiling. The warrior stopped in midpunch and wheeled around as a lovely female carrying young in a pink blanket came over to him. His face softened, positively melted.”
“God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.”
“That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal.”
“Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.”

Source : Joseph Cook (187?). “God and the Conscience: Love and Marriage”
“I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know”
“Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.”

Source : John Osborne, Anthony Creighton, Arnold Wesker, Bernard Kops (1964). “Epitaph for George Dillon”

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