"Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998."

-- Ato Boldon

#Schedules Quotes #October Quotes #Married Quotes

“I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the schemeâ€™s appeal. That it wouldnâ€™t be easy was the whole point.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.135, Pan Macmillan
“The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.”
“Life doesnâ€™t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesnâ€™t hurt.)”
“People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.”
“Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.”
“True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!”
“A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.”

Source : Sir James Mackintosh (1834). “A general view of the progress of ethical philosophy: chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries”, p.117

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