"[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies."

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Source : Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

Mildred Cable

#Heart Quotes #Camels Quotes #Weak Quotes

“When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that I'm in when I'm in front of a canvas, or when I'm writing a story about one of my paintings, or when I'm playing music. Whatever I'm doing at any given time, it's the same exact zone.”
“Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.”
“The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.”
“I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.”

Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.
“The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.”

Source : "The Berbers". Book by Michael Brett and Elizabeth Fentress, Blackwell Publishing, p. 1, "Kitab al-Ibar", 1997.
“Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.”
“Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?”
“I live near Amish communities in northern Indiana and I have the greatest respect for such faithful people. They attempt to live their faith more fully by separating themselves, as far as possible, from the wider culture and its influences. That has never been the teaching of the Catholic faith.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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