#if

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave. ↗

— Richard Gere

#cave #constantly #i #i am #life

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? ↗

— David R. Gergen

#heaven #how #much #name #nation

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth! ↗

— Albert Einstein

#intelligence #life-lessons #funny

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#challenges #competition #employers #face #numerous

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#humor #life #pleasure #death

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#gifts #gratitude #knack #nothing #people

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#enjoy #enjoy life #life #practice #theory

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#defies #different #different way #going #had

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#fiction #get #i #i think #i write

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#design #life #may #ourselves #presence