"What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing."

-- George Orwell

#Stupidity Quotes #Instinct Quotes #Cowardice Quotes

“My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.”
“Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.”
“The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.”
“What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.”
“When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.”
“This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.”
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”

Source : Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition
“I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.”

You may also like:

Aldous Huxley
Writer
Charles Dickens
Writer
Ernest Hemingway
Author
H. G. Wells
Writer
James Joyce
Novelist
John Steinbeck
Author
Mark Twain
Author
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Ray Bradbury
Writer