Jamie > Jamie's Quotes

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“To know ten thousand things, know one well”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
― Erich Fromm

“Do nothing that is of no use”
― Musashi Miyamoto, Book of Five Rings

“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

“What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

“...it is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays