But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others.
~ Eric Hoffer
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A mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs.
~ Dean Acheson
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other.
~ Anton Chekhov
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All social disturbances and upheavals have their roots in crises of individual self-esteem, and the great endeavor in which the masses most readily unite is basically a search for pride.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success.
~ Dean Acheson
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Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister—corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.
~ Richard Rorty
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