Quote by Tom Stoppard

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts eve

Summary

This quote suggests that God plays a trick on us by causing our hearts to be attracted to people who may not deserve or reciprocate our love. It implies that our emotions are often misguided and lead us away from those who truly deserve our affection.

Topics

Love Lady Croom

By Tom Stoppard

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's t

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

Identity

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passi

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Knowledge

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Conversation

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of t

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

Technology

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibr

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Music

Agreeing to disagree is a way of giving upÂ—an admission tha

Agreeing to disagree is a way of giving upÂ—an admission that neither one of us has the skills, courage, or tenacity to work it out!

Suzanne Mayo Frindt

Agreement

The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty

The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.

Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]

Journeys

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Knowledge

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Growth

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consist

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Men

Envy and wrath shorten the life. Ecclesiasticus

Envy and wrath shorten the life. Ecclesiasticus

Envy / Jealousy