"We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us."

-- James Dillet Freeman

#Loss Quotes #Nerves Quotes #World Quotes

“Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.”

Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
“I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.”
“It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of mountains, as it must to the first astronomers, that the fall of an apple should assist in explaining the motions of the moon.”

Source : Charles Lyell (1833). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.5
“She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.”
“It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.”
“You must market your marketing.”
“New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.”
“I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.”

Source : "Q&A: We Heart Amy Ryan". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. September 22, 2010.

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