Doings Quotes (page 883)

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• waiting
• people
• figures

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait. Ken Kesey

• wonder
• understanding
• wonderful

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? Salman Rushdie

• men
• thinking
• luck

What luck for rulers that men do not think. Adolf Hitler

• heart
• sometimes
• manly

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Laurell K. Hamilton

• humanity
• road
• world

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world... C. S. Lewis

• smile
• death
• manly

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. Marcus Aurelius

• love
• long love
• nature

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? Herman Melville

• heart
• knowingly
• laughs

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either Golda Meir

• learning
• look
• ours

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. Michel de Montaigne

• quitting
• sufferings
• sufferers

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I. Emilie Autumn

• universe
• mind
• mindfulness

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• cool
• look
• indian

Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, "I did see a few Indians on the way over here." And John Wayne, with this really cool look on his face, replies, 'Don't worry. If you were able to spot some Indians, that means there weren't any there.' I don't remember the actual lines, but it went something like that. Do you get what he means? Haruki Murakami

• wellness
• choose
• choosing

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself! Vivienne Westwood

• god
• kindness
• believe

What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God Elizabeth Gilbert

• look
• end
• government

In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll and all the misery that it involves? I believe that if you read this book to the end, and look honestly and carefully at our situation, assessing both the facts and the ethical... Peter Singer