"A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so."

“The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 395), 1895.

“People get trapped in the way things should feel and less focused on the way things should function.”

“I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.”

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“When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.”

“One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.”

“At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.”

“From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing.”

Source : John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

“People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.”