Certain Quote by Jack London

“He had never been a believer in systems—his was an overweening faith that life lay in the contradictions, not in the formulae, in the…

— Stacy Schiff

“He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because…

— William Faulkner

“He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions—the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted,…

— Wally Lamb

“He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than…

— Robert Pirsig

“His faith was no game he played.  It was not a mantle to put on or be taken off as the need arose.  The…

— Ki Longfellow

“And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for “weak, sick people” because he was frightened by any…

— James C. Coyne

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

— Daniel Kahneman

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at…

— Charles Baudelaire

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much…

— Paulo Coelho

“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness…

— Hermann Bahr

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil…

— Leo Tolstoy