"I'm a runner first before anything else."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Firsts Quotes #Runners Quotes

“If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.”
“The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.245, Bloomsbury Publishing
“It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, world view and thoughts.”

Source : "Close Range". Interview with Matthew Testa, www.cityweekly.net. June 11, 2007.
“The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.260, Ballantine Books
“This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.”
“Don't follow those who talk, follow those who do.”
“A man prepared has half fought the battle.”
“The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own”

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