"[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story."

-- Rebecca Solnit

#Looks Quotes #Stories Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“I don't think that we need to see [Donald Trump] tax returns to verify his financial acumen. I walk into the Trump Tower every day and I'm like, this guy did pretty well for himself before I got here.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.”
“When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.”
“After a storm comes a calm.”
“The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.167, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”
“Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”
“I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.”

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