"During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast."

-- Marty Liquori

#Running Quotes #Horse Quotes #Distance Quotes

“I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.”
“People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.”
“Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.”
“Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.”
“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as much a problem today for American filmmakers who cannot conceive of the presence of gay characters in a film unless the specific subject of the film is homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men are thereby classified as purely sexual creatures, people defined solely by their sexual urges.”
“Shabazz led chants of â€˜death to Israel,â€™ â€˜the white man is the devil,â€™ and â€˜Jihad.â€™ He also said, â€˜Kill every ***** Zionist in Israel! Goddamn little babies, ***** old ladies! Blow up Zionist supermarkets!â€™”
“Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.”

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