"If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Life Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Stories Quotes

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youâ€™re not, pretend you are.”
“No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.”
“Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.”
“Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.”
“A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.”
“To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.”
“It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.”
“Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling,”

Source : "Questlove: ‘Hip-Hop Has Failed Black America’" by Cynthia Dagnal-Myron, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2014.

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