Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in thirty seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
—from "Heat" (film).
Showing posts with label trouble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trouble. Show all posts
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Post #908
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Monday, June 07, 2010
Post #248
Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
Monday, April 12, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Post #112
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, January 04, 2010
Post #95
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
—Fridtjof Nansen
—Fridtjof Nansen
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
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