"To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators."

-- Peter Cundill

#Running Quotes #Reality Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line.”

Source : Meb Keflezighi, Dick Patrick, Joan Benoit Samuelson (2010). “Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream”, p.5, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.”
“In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here.”
“Women have their uses for historians.”

Source : Ronald Syme (1989). “The Augustan Aristocracy”, p.168, Oxford University Press
“Racism is kinda old. For real.”
“I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.”
“It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.”
“Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.”

Source : "Mourinho in his own words" by Chris Charles, news.bbc.co.uk. September 20, 2007.

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