What did Iain Banks mean by: One should never regret one’s excesses, only one’s failures of nerve. - Iain Banks Author · Scotland Copy
+ One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Law, Pleasure, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ It’s a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Evil, Library, Stupid, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ In so much of politics you’re not allowed to disagree with what’s been agreed. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Disagreement, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Achieve, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Achieve, Exercise, Skills, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Salvation, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Approach, Voice, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn’t. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Fiction, Writing, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Magician · France
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I’m very lucky. - Jeanne Calment Painter · France
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Salon hostess · France
There’s two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. - Jeff Blatnick Wrestler · USA
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart. - Jeffrey Eugenides Author
My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets: Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet. - Jennie Garth Actress · USA
