"The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running."

-- Nik Wallenda

#Running Quotes #Wind Quotes #Romance Quotes

“I always think that Iâ€™m still this 13-year old boy that doesnâ€™t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when Iâ€™ll really have to do it.”
“Thank you, Morrigan. This is very helpful,â€ I said, already feeling myself warming up. â€œAnd delivered to me entirely without pain.â€ The Morrigan sucker-punched me hard in the face, sending me sprawling in the snow and breaking my nose. â€œYou spoke too soon and with entirely too much sarcasm,â€ she said. â€œWe could have parted with a kiss. Remember that....”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.817, Del Rey
“A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.”
“In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew sub-consciously, that they would make up the numbers, mill about, and get shot at.”
“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
“One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our kids still have environmental tobacco smoke exposure when environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with sudden infant death syndrome, with ear infections, respiratory infections and the rest. If we had to pick something to really go after, that would be one that I would really argue is an extraordinarily high priority and something people can actually do something about.”
“Nothing motivates like success. While academics, consultants and gurus are preoccupied with coming up with great insights and seminal ideas, usually they don't realize that making things happen, achieving operational excellence, moving the organization from uncertainty to clarity, from red ink to black, is what really creates hope for a better future. Therefore, great leadership always involves great ideas and real actions that reinforce a strong belief in the excellence of the decision makers and in the viability of the organization itself.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.”

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