"If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle."

-- Tonie Campbell

#Fall Quotes #Track Quotes #Hurdle Quotes

“You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see whoâ€™s still there.”
“From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin
“This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Harbour”, p.164, Hachette UK
“I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood. I work with a remote so that I can change CDs instantly if I need to.”
“Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”
“I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.”
“Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.”

Source : "Sword Point". Book by Harold Coyle, p. 141, 1988.
“Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.”

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