"By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions."

-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Track Quotes #People Quotes #Asking Quotes

“Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.”
“Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.”
“Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.”
“I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.”
“You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.”
“It was tough. I told [my kids] mommy is on her semester abroad, which is still going on apparently.”
“If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.”

Source : "Bush, Clinton in campaign blitz", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.
“We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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