"The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it!”
“Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.”
“Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.”

Source : John Cheever (1958). “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, and Other Stories: By John Cheever”, New York, Harper
“What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.”
“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.”
“The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.”
“If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.”

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