"I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too."

-- Bill Bowerman

#Sports Quotes #Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.”

Source : David J. Bosch (1991). “Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission”, p.381, Orbis Books
“No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out.”
“In all my documentaries, I have great respect for the people I work with. Really, I love them. And it's very important for me that when I finish a movie, they stay my friends. It's important that they won't feel that I in any way manipulated them or showed them in a bad light. I want to show them in all their reality - not as subjects but as people with flesh and blood - but I want to do this with all my respect.”
“I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.”
“From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.”

Source : William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books
“I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.”
“There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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