"I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. You've got a bunch of drunks behind you, often in a hostile, adrenalized environment like a football game. What's to prevent the guy behind me from slamming my head into the porcelain wall in front of me?"

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Source : Source: www.gq.com

Steve Rushin

#Football Quotes #Wall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience”
“The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.”
“I'd have no problem serving under any president.”
“First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.”

Source : "Interview With Mexican President Vicente Fox". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com.
“Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.”

Source : "The Idea of God". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.
“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”

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