"A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present."

-- Baruch Spinoza

#Past Quotes #Men Quotes #Anticipation Quotes

“Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.”
“Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.”
“I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.”
“I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more.”
“Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.”

Source : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.
“I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought â€œto arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.”
“We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.”

Source : Sol Saks (1991). “Funny Business: The Craft of Comedy Writing”, Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC

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