The capitalist world is a Boston Marathon that never ends – there is no respite at the end of a punishing two-hour race. The race goes on and on and on and on and on: 24 hours × 7 days a week × 365 days a year. It’s unending, unrelenting, unforgiving.
– from What I Learned About Investing from Darwin book by Pulak Prasad
Category: Quotes
I’ve never cared much for destinations …
I’ve never cared much for destinations. The idea of landing is too finite for my imagination and sense of song. Give me a direction and a sixteen-lane highway with room to swerve and explore along the way.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Me, I love surprises. I love …
Me, I love surprises. I love it when life pulls a rabbit out of a hat. […] But some people just don’t like being caught off guard – even by good news.
– from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
They are such terrible fanatics in …
They are such terrible fanatics in Pakistan. What to talk of the illiterates, even the educated here scoff at rational thinking. The mullah have such stranglehold over us that we cannot budge an inch from where we are asked to stand. We cannot contemplate any change in our religion, although according to the present times, it requires radical changes.
– from An Indian Spy in Pakistan book by Mohanlal Bhaskar
New York was a great place …
New York was a great place to have no money. There’s so much free art and beauty, so much incredible, cheap food. But having money in New York, now that would be magical.
– from Book Lovers book by Emily Henry
Time is the great eraser, both …
Time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Time to get rid of the …
Time to get rid of the filters. Make my life my favorite movie. Live my favorite character. Write my own script. Direct my own story. Be my biography. Make my own documentary, on me. Nonfiction. Live, not recorded. Time to catch that hero I’ve been chasing, see if the sun will melt the wax that holds my wings or if the heat is just a mirage. Live my legacy now. Quit acting like me. Be me.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Nothing soothes the soul like a …
Nothing soothes the soul like a gallop in the sunshine.
– from The Women book by Kristin Hannah
Doing what everybody else is doing …
Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.
– from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
You can’t live long with the …
You can’t live long with the ones who are only beautiful. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime!
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman