"There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in."

-- Michael Connelly

#Running Quotes #Loss Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.”

Source : "Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike" by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.
“A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.”
“Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.”
“I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.”
“Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.”
“I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.”

Source : "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.”

Source : Faye Kellerman (2009). “The Quality of Mercy”, p.32, Harper Collins
“We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game”

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