"The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong."

-- John Buchan

#School Quotes #Character Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.”
“Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.”

Source : Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.82, Random House
“Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.”
“If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.”
“Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?" "Of course I'm sure-" Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet.”
“Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 15, 2015
“I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.”

Source : "Tell Me A Lie: 7 Hulk Hogan Stories That Nobody Actually Believes" by David Dennis, Jr., uproxx.com. April 17, 2015.
“Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.”

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