"A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but Ill stop short of calling it foolish."

-- Claire Cameron

#Phones Quotes #Cells Quotes #Hiking Quotes

“I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!”

Source : Mark Felt, John D. O'Connor (2007). “A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat', and the Struggle for Honor in Washington”, Public Affairs
“Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.”
“I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.”
“When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.”
“The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed.”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”
“Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.”
“We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.”
“I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.”

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