"Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under."

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Source : L. A. Meyer (2007). “Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber”, p.308, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

L.A. Meyer

#Boots Quotes #Pounds Quotes #Easy Quotes

“I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.”
“My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.”
“You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.”
“We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.”
“One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.”

Source : "David vs. Goliath: Internet Entrepreneurship vs. Corporate America" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2011.
“Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.”
“A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like â€œwhy does a good God let bad things happen to good people â€ such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say â€œGod â€ we will do so with the prayer â€œMy God my God why have you forsaken me?”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.141, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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