Lzas25kc604 Quotes & Sayings

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed. — Christopher Hitchens

It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few. — Mary Shelley

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. — Robert Walpole

You could have been killed." Reacher nodded. "Many times," he said. "But all long ago. Not today. Not by these guys." "You're crazy." "Or competent. — Lee Child

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don't do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense. — H.L. Mencken