"I have been in danger of being drowned twice."

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Source : John Aubrey (1857). “Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects”, p.13

John Aubrey

#Workout Quotes #Danger Quotes

“Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless' longing, the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to received the nail of Calvary, as Christ's was opened- that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.”
“That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.”
“Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.”
“Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.”

Source : Thomas Binney (1853). “Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men”, p.76
“If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.”
“For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.”
“Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.”
“Hope for the best, plan for the worst.”

Source : Lee Child (2014). “Personal (with bonus short story Not a Drill): A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.179, Delacorte Press

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