"It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well."

-- Charles Frazier

#Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes #Wells Quotes

“A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].”
“The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.”
“Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.”

Source : Source: dutchsoccersite.org
“Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.”
“The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.”
“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them. But he had been endeavoring to give a more active and positive help than this to the cause of what he deemed pure religion.”

Source : "Mary Everest Boole, Collected Works" by Mary Everest Boole, edited by ‎Eleanor Meredith Cobham, (p. 40), 1931.
“Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy”

Source : "Six Years". Book by Harlan Coben, 2013.
“There are a lot of good racquetball players out there, but playing the game and knowing the game are two different things. Because I had no direction, I had to feel the game.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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