"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master."

-- Sallust

#Men Quotes #Desire Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.”
“Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.”
“Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble.”
“Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.”
“I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.”
“Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.”
“Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.”

Source : Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

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