"You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade ad The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."

-- Juma Ikangaa

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #Winning Quotes

“When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.”
“From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.”

Source : James Nasmyth, Samuel Smiles (1883). “James Nasmyth Engineer: An Autobiography”, London : J. Murray
“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”

Source : John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA
“Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.”
“In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.”
“There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you're holding them. They've been safe inside your belly for almost 10 months, and now they're in your arms. Intuition kicks in, where you will do anything for them and you have all the tools inside of you to take care of them.”
“Was it a risky move? Yes, but at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal. Maybe I was naive. Maybe I thought it was 2014, and people will understand that there's gay NFL players. There's gay athletes everywhere. But I was clearly wrong. It was a huge deal.”

Source : "Michael Sam: ‘I’m not the only gay person in the NFL’" by Charean Williams, www.star-telegram.com. March 26, 2015.
“What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.”

Source : Walter De la Mare (1997). “The Return”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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