"Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion."

-- Herb Kelleher

#Texas Quotes #Nuts Quotes #People Quotes

“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
“Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung back and forth. "We can finally just focus on us now. Continue the traditional 'Boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy turns out to be a vampire' story.”
“Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.”
“she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing”
“A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.”
“It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.”
“The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.”
“After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.”

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