"If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?"

-- Warren Farrell

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have to pay your money to the woman showing you the door. You see the dirt on the walls and your sorry image in the mirror.”
“The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.”

Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1978, Рипол Классик
“I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.”
“All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.”
“As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.”
“I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all.”

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