Alfred Renyi Quotes

#1. Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

Alan Furst

#2. When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.

Sadhguru

#3. She didn't drink wine, and even if she did, I didn't know if red or white was appropriate for telling a woman that you want to kill her former lover. Do they have greeting cards for that sort of thing?

Elliott James

#4. If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

Alfred Renyi

#5. The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#6. From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. Parents who experience pause from "the unnecessary beauty of an ice storm coating trees," while their kids - who "bewilder well," she writes - are simply looking for something to throw.

Durga Chew-Bose