Daily Quotes IX
14 years ago
“One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's always an opponent, and there's always a victim. The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former.” -Mr. Green, Revolver
"Dying is easy, it takes a strong man to face the world"
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." - (attributed to) William Shakespeare
"With foxes, we must play the fox." - Thomas Fuller
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." - Francois de la Roche Foucauld
"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." -Writer Cyril Connolly
Videre Videnda
"Dying is easy, it takes a strong man to face the world"
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." - (attributed to) William Shakespeare
"With foxes, we must play the fox." - Thomas Fuller
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." - Francois de la Roche Foucauld
"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." -Writer Cyril Connolly
Videre Videnda
"The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are." HENRY FORD
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." ROBERTSON DAVIES
"The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces." AUGUST STRINDBERG
"Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise." THOMAS JEFFERSON
"Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs." ECKHART TOLLE
and finally
"Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power." HORACE MANN
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." ROBERTSON DAVIES
"The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces." AUGUST STRINDBERG
"Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise." THOMAS JEFFERSON
"Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs." ECKHART TOLLE
and finally
"Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power." HORACE MANN