"The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation."

-- David Hume

#Lazy Quotes #Lively Quotes #Stills Quotes

“The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.”
“As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters”
“The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence in Afghanistan. The Afghans can't point and say, "Oh, the Americans built that road. They built that telecommunications facility. They built that electricity powerhouse," because nothing has been built so far.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.”
“I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I say I don't know. And if you don't know - and you don't - just man up and say you don't know. Don't turn to silly stories and ancient myths.”
“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”
“Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.”

Source : Truman Capote (2012). “A Christmas Memory”, p.23, Modern Library

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