"To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end."

-- David Foster Wallace

#Commitment Quotes #Loss Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.”
“Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.”
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.”
“I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.”
“I look up to my father, because he's very, very experimental in his cuisine, and he puts a lot of love into things. He's the best. To me.”
“It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”
“Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.”
“Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.”

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