"Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first."

-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Business Quotes #Men Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.”
“You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.662, Broadway Books
“Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.”
“As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.”
“I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.”
“Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.”
“Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.”
“I am only a spark: Make me a fire.”

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