"Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic."

-- Ranulph Fiennes

#Winter Quotes #Want Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.”
“My mother helped me to get past that. She was always there for me, until she dies. I remember she told me once, about big hearts and small hearts, and that not everyone could be blessed with a big one that had room to care for a lot of people. She promised me that mine was big, and that I was the lucky one for it.”

Source : Johanna Lindsey (2004). “A Man to Call My Own: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster
“It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.”
“Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.”
“... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.”
“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

Source : Hesiod (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Hesiod (Illustrated)”, p.49, Delphi Classics
“After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace”
“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”

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