“From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.”

— David Brin , book Earth

Part V (p. 250)
Earth (1990)

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novelist, short story writer 1950

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

“Because I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally…in love with you.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

“I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

“In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.”

Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager

On Arsenal's summer, (2011) http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14859401
Arsenal (1996–present)

“What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?”

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman

Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Introduction, p. xxix

“The less you expect from others and yourself, the happier you will become in life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“There is a certain force, less primary than being but more primary than the soul, which draws its existence from being and completes the soul as the sun completes the eyes.”

Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer

VIII. On Mind and Soul, and that the latter is immortal.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: There is a certain force, less primary than being but more primary than the soul, which draws its existence from being and completes the soul as the sun completes the eyes. Of souls some are rational and immortal, some irrational and mortal. The former are derived from the first Gods, the latter from the secondary.

“Although I dreamed of flying from childhood, that was utterly unthinkable. I had to start work early, a shoeshine boy — a poor man's profession — or selling vegetables.”

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1942) Cuban cosmonaut

Source: Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (2021) cited in " Cuba’s Only Cosmonaut: Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez https://aldianews.com/articles/leaders/cubas-only-cosmonaut-arnaldo-tamayo-mendez/68439" on Al Día News, 7 December 2021.

“Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“No one is safe from religious ideas and confessional phenomena. Neither you nor I. We can fall victim to them when we least expect it. It's like Mao flu, or being struck by lightning. You're utterly helpless. Exposed. As I see it today, any relapse is utterly out of the question. But I can't say it's out of the question tomorrow.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

Jonas Sima interview
Bergman on Bergman (1970)

“From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.”

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