"He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back"

-- A. A. Gill

#Beach Quotes #Men Quotes #Water Quotes

“I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! Iâ€™m 24 now, so I guess Iâ€™ve been very, very lucky that it doesnâ€™t show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guessâ€¦”
“Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.”
“The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.”

Source : Walter Zettl (1998). “Dressage in Harmony: From Basic to Grand Prix”, p.32, Trafalgar Square Books
“Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.”
“Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.”
“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”
“I work every single day, even on Sundays.”
“Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate and enlarge him. This categorical imperative is by no way lessened by the fact that such an involvement is inevitably soiled by error: it is a worse error merely to live for oneself, caught within traditions which are soiled by inhumanity.”

Source : Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.374, University of Iowa Press

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