"It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side."

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Source : "Why I'm rowing across the Pacific". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April, 2010.

Roz Savage

#Ocean Quotes #Way Quotes #Sides Quotes

“Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.”
“Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Had I just begged for an audience with Death?”
“I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.”
“There were three options [in Allied], which were for [Bred Pitt] to shoot [Marion Cotillard], for them to escape, or for her to pull the trigger, which is a heroic act to spare him. When I was thinking about how it would end, a long time ago, I think I tried each of them to see, but two of them did not work.”
“Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. III, 1938.
“We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.”
“Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.”

Source : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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