"How peaceful life would be without love. Â How safe, how tranquil and how dull."

-- Sean Connery

#Peaceful Quotes #Dull Quotes #Safe Quotes

“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
“The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.”
“Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.”
“[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.”
“Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.”
“I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.”
“But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.34, Library of Alexandria
“In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.”

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