"I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say."

-- James Taylor

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“When you buy a jacket, itâ€™s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!”
“I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.”

Source : Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.149, Penguin
“My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.”

Source : "Telemundo's Cristina: 'My Hope Is to See Tom Cruise Jumping on My Couch'" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 2, 2011.
“Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory..”
“Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.”
“Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.”
“Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.”
“The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.”

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