"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Inspiration Quotes #Men Quotes #Age Quotes

“I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.”
“There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that, while physical coordination of monuments is easier than it's ever been, property boundaries often need to be determined based on evidence and plans that are old, decrepit, and done with different technology and expectations than we have today.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are looking at nuclear weapons, whether you are looking at expanding wars and their blowback, which will not stop as long as those wars continue to expand, or whether you're looking at the climate, in my view, we have no choice. This is an existential moment. We are deciding not only what kind of world we will have, but whether we will have a world or not. I think it's very important to get outside this box that tells us we are powerless, when in fact, we are powerful.”

Source : "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.
“Being on stage is what I enjoy.”
“You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.”
“No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice...”
“But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.”

Source : Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”
“It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.”

Source : B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.223, Vintage

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