"A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing"

-- Chinua Achebe

#Running Quotes #Doe Quotes #Toads Quotes

“The barrier has begun to yield.”

Source : John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.550, Cambridge University Press
“They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.”
“One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.”

Source : "At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA". Book by George Tenet and Bill Harlow (Chapter "They Want to Change History"), www.nbcnews.com. April 30, 2007.
“Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.”
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.”
“Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.”
“What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.”
“Your friends will need you, too, someday. Maybe not in the same way, maybe not in cash and shelter, but they'll need you - to listen without judging, to invite them over when they're lonely, to show up for their events, to register in whatever way matters to them that they matter to you. Be on the lookout for these opportunities to give back, and do whatever is in your power not to miss many of them.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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