Some - Quotes
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man`s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
How do I really feel about the possibility that all my actions, and those of my friends, are ultimately governed by mathematical principles (...)? I can live with that. I would, indeed, prefer to have these actions controlled by something residing in some (...) aspect of Plato`s fabulous mathematical world than to have them be subject to the kind of simplistic base motives, such as pleasure-seeking, personal greed, or aggressive violence, that many would argue to be the implications of a strictly scientific standpoint.
Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
It is much easier to do business with the owner of the business than some employee who is likely to lose his job next year; likewise it is easier to trust the word of an autocrat than a fragile elected official.
Learning is rooted in repetition [...], meaning that the reading of a single text twice is more profitable than reading two different things once, provided of course that said text has some depth of content.
The rules of life aren`t always clear. Some rules are unwritten. And just when we think we have a handle on the rules something comes along. Things ain`t never gonna be the same.
Some things are just your fault. Some things you screw up and you can`t take back, no matter how hard you try. Some things you pay for the rest of your life.
some people can do bad things when they`re desperate or scared. [...] I`m not saying all people are good people or even that most people are, but if we help people, then maybe they`ll help people.
There are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world.
You know the world`s an ambiguous place. You know that love doesn`t conquer all. It conquers some stuff. The other stuff kicks the living crap out of love.
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.