Tom Tryon quotes

The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.
-- Tom Tryon

#Sports #Fighting #Worry

For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.
-- Tom Tryon

#Hurt #Cry #Fountain

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.