"If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb"

-- Ian Holloway

#Thumbs Quotes #Barrels Quotes

“Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.”
“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.”

Source : Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.129, New York, Wiley & Putnam
“The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 27, 2012
“Granted that I must die, how shall I live?”

Source : Michael Novak (1970). “The Experience of Nothingness”, p.46, Transaction Publishers
“Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.”
“Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.”
“She thought, "He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose hands I would so willingly trust my lifelong happiness. I dare do anything to win him and to gain an immortal soul.”
“Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.”

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