"If climate change issues are not adequately addressedâ€”if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers donâ€™t have it on their radar screensâ€”then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake."

-- Christine Lagarde

#Running Quotes #Nice Quotes #Issues Quotes

“For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.”
“I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.”
“A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects. I was seeing things, instead, as dynamic events, unique in their own beings yet also related and existing together within a universal context of energy and change.”
“My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.”
“I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.”

Source : Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.241, Macmillan
“Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.”
“Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.”
“Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.108, Seven Stories Press

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