Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are...

"Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster."

J. Christopher Herold

Kommentare 0

Noch keine Kommentare

Sei der Erste, der seine Gedanken teilt!

Bitte logge dich ein, um mitzudiskutieren.

Das könnte dir auch gefallen

Inspiration

To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... That's how I write the horror. It's very complicated.

Author

"A dimple in the chin a devil within."

Irish proverb

"If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it."

Shia LaBeouf

"Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves."

Richard Feynman

"We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe."

Vandana Shiva

Inspiration

Never spit in a lion's face when you've got your hand in his mouth.

A.G. Gaston

Inspiration

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Author

Inspiration

Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean.

Laren Grey Umphlett

Inspiration

Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall.'The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.

Author

"Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded."

Lao Tzu

"My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is."

Iain Banks

"All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now."

Malinda Lo

"The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths."

Aleksandar Hemon

Inspiration

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself.

Author

"On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient."

Jeremy Rozansky