"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble."

-- Elias Canetti

#Mad Quotes #Effort Quotes #Survival Quotes

“I have to admit that I was terrified of ending the book, precisely because I go around saying about pretty much every book I read, "It fell apart at the end." I have friends who are waiting to ridicule me forever.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.”

Source : "My life in shopping: Trinny Woodall". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2006.
“Things that are impossible just take longer.”
“The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.”
“She isn't missing. She's at the farm right now.”
“There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.”
“I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.”
“We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don”

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