"We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred."

-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Regret Quotes #Experience Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.”

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (2012). “About Vectors”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.”
“If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.”
“Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.”
“To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.”
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”

Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.255, Vintage
“A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.”

Source : MYRTLE REED (1910). “MASTER OF THE VINEYARD”

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