"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."

-- Hayden Fry

#Kicking Quotes #Old Fashioned Quotes

“I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.”

Source : "Donovan candidly discusses future, retirement in wide-ranging Q&A". Interview with Grant Wahl, www.si.com. May 23, 2012.
“The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned...”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”
“Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.”
“I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.”
“I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!”
“The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.”
“My parents want me to be a lawyer or something like that. Something steady. That's always their main concern as parents: "Oh, you need a salary, you need life insurance, why aren't you having kids?" But in the end, they're happy about it.”
“Talks with terror cannot happen, but talks on terror are desirable.”

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