"At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Running Quotes #Bravery Quotes #Want Quotes

“In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.”
“It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.”
“If you're not creating, you're waiting.”
“If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.”

Source : "Who Said Failure was Fashionable? Frankly, It Sucks" by Howard A. Tullman, www.inc.com. September 5, 2012.
“In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.”
“I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.”
“Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.”
“I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.”

Source : "Dems seek to sharpen message on eve of convention". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2012.

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