“Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.”
“I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“If you’re going around in circles, maybe you’re cutting corners.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“waiting in hospitals is as close as we get to being in hell before our time,”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“up beside the car. Then he pulled out a Sig Sauer”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“I told the truth and shamed the devil.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“I climbed out of my old Porsche in the staff”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
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“Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, quote from How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“And I saw how everybody dies and nobody's going to care. I felt how it is to live just so you can die like a bull trapped in a screaming human ring.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Lonesome Traveler
“My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing."
"You mean you went to an expensive school?”
― Ian Rankin, quote from Knots and Crosses
“was a full-service marina for the terminally rich, the kind of place where they cleaned and polished your bowline when you brought the boat in.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dexter in the Dark
“Proof is what lies at the heart of maths, and is what marks it out from other sciences. Other sciences have hypotheses that are tested against experimental evidence until they fail, and are overtaken by new hypotheses. In maths, absolute proof is the goal, and once something is proved, it is proved forever, with no room for change.”
― Simon Singh, quote from Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
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