"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration."

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Source : "The Compleat Angler".

Izaak Walton

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?”
“If you're not broadcasting what people feel is their truth as it relates to you, well that becomes a problem. If your not broadcasting how much you love your boyfriend or husband via social media, problems occur in the home and I really think this is happening more than we acknowledge.”
“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.”
“I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.”
“You're kind of a smart ***** when you're not flat on your face.”
“It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered.”
“Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.”
“I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.”

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