"I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom."

-- George Will

#Space Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.”
“Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.”
“When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations â€¦ we could design a better world.”
“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
“Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning...”
“I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.”
“What do you know about dragons?â€ â€œThey're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.â€ His grinned again. â€œI do miss the virgins.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2004). “You Slay Me”, p.49, Penguin
“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”

Source : John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.49, Lulu.com

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