“Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!”
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“I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.”
“The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.”
“What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.”
“What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!”
“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
“He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides”
“Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?”
“It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.”
“I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()”
“It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?”
“Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.”
“We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.”
“I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when Im on tour thats always a good option.”
“Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.”
“People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.”
“Every coach always worries about accidents happening. I was very fortunate as a head coach that we were never in any accidents. But when you hear about them happening to other schools, it is very sad.”
“It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow.”
“You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time”
“I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.”