"If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one."

-- Max Gunther

#Sports Quotes #War Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010
“Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.”
“You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.”
“My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he expressed it,it lost all value, and enjoyed but a commonplace status. My friend blamed this devaluation on the language. "I hate English," he said. So he studied another language. He mastered it so perfectly that there was no room left in his brain for a brilliant idea. Now he has a grudge against words. He refuses to use them. He prefers to shrug or grunt. A new crop of ideas is growing. They show promise of future refinement.”
“Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.”
“If you spend a lot of time shopping for athletic clothes, you may want to consider spending less time thinking about high school.”
“I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.”

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