"One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time."

-- Yvon Chouinard

#Two Quotes #Feet Quotes #Balls Quotes

“We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.”
“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.”
“Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.”
“Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.”
“Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.”
“Love, I find, is like singing.”
“I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose [such a development]. Where is the justice in that?”

Source : "Bashar Is Politically Dead". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 20, 2012.
“Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been â€œauthorized by the Bibleâ€ and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.”

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