"The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him."

-- Freya Stark

#Doubt Quotes #Usual Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.”
“From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,â€ Joe said quietly. â€œThey were all you, to me. All of them were you.”
“I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.”
“The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.”
“I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.”
“For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.”

Source : Runner's World magazine, June 2009.
“A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.”
“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”

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