"Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?"

-- Jay Asher

“I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.”
“But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.”

Source : Dick Francis (2004). “10 lb Penalty”, p.21, Penguin
“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.”
“God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.”
“It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.”
“...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.61, Crown Business
“If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.”
“I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and said, 'we didn't raise a quitter - you're going back out.' I made the team and everything happened from there.”

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