"Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'"

-- Barry S. Strauss

#Greek Quotes #Rowing Quotes #Meter Quotes

“My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.”
“I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.”
“On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”
“I think, as Ive gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.”
“I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.”
“O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained.”

Source : Richard Rolle (of Hampole) (1920). “The Fire of Love”
“A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.”

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