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Thinking Quotes (page 297)

For when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs all of the others ... the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have the less you worry.When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics. When you have three francs left, you are quite indifferent ... you are bored but you are not afraid. You think vaguely "I shall be starving in a day or two- shocking, isn't it?"... George Orwell
That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul. Victor Hugo
What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn; t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong. Nicholas Sparks
George R. R. Martin quote: "- Some men think because they are afraid to do.- There is a..."
- Some men think because they are afraid to do.- There is a difference between fear and caution. George R. R. Martin
And, thinking of this judgment I would no longer be able to change, I suddenly felt a kind of relief, as if peace could come to me only after the moment when there would be nothing to add and nothing to remove in that arbitrary ledger of misunderstandings, and the galaxies which were gradually reduced to the last tail of the last luminous ray, winding from the sphere of darkness, seemed to bring with them the only possible truth about myself, and I couldn’t wait until all of them, one after... Italo Calvino
Formerly, when I was told to consider him wise, I kept trying to, and thought I was stupid myself because I was unable to perceive his wisdom; but as soon as I said to myself, he's stupid (only in a whisper of course), it all became quite clear! Don't you think so?' 'How malicious you are to-day!' 'Not at all. I have no choice. One of us is stupid, and you know it's impossible to say so of oneself. Leo Tolstoy
J. D. Salinger quote: "It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always..."
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. J. D. Salinger
Roberto Bolano quote: "It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who..."
It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who walks by. What do you think you are, a troubadour? Roberto Bolano
Voltaire quote: "Don't think money is everything or you are going to end up..."
Don't think money is everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money. Voltaire
Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full of people to protect them from violence." David Icke - Remember Who You Are David Icke
Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It’s just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth. Haruki Murakami
George Eliot quote: "People are almost always better than their neighbors think..."
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. George Eliot
Dean Koontz quote: "If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't..."
If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations. Dean Koontz
Orson Scott Card quote: "I'll obey you now," said Runnel. Brick laughed. "Except when..."
I'll obey you now," said Runnel. Brick laughed. "Except when you think I'm wrong. Orson Scott Card
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you... ... ...and that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means that they are so small you don't have to take them into account when you are calculating something. Mark Haddon

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