"My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Running Quotes #Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Our aid is work for the American people.”
“All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.”
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
“I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.”
“In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.”
“The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books,”
“Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.”

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