"Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon."

-- Paula Radcliffe

#Running Quotes #People Quotes #Marathon Quotes

“Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.”
“Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.”
“They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.”
“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1899). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”
“I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...”
“Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.”
“Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.”
“The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!”

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