“The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.”
#349
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Source: The Man Without Qualities
“The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.”
#349
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVII, p. 211
Source: The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
at Council for Secular Humanism, October 9, 2010.
Context: I have been told that my position won't win the creationist court cases. Do you think I care? I didn't become a scientist because I want to impress lawyers. The word for people who are neutral about truth is "liars".
As quoted by Lewis Nichols http://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/30/obituaries/lewis-nichols-times-drama-critic-during-world-war-ii-dead-at-78.html in "Talk With Jim Bishop" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F03EEDE133AE53BBC4E53DFB466838E649EDE, The New York Times (6 February 1955).
“A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 15
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)