"My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since."

-- Hugh Laurie

#Dad Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Week Quotes

“May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.”

Source : "Bahrain will not digress from reform" by Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2011.
“But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.”

Source : "The big issue" by Shane Watson, The Times, December 02, 2007.
“Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.”
“I find it odd that, in real life people think I am funny but no one ever suspects that on the page! Personally, I think some of my work is a riot! I crack myself up, but I know that the poems seem so relentlessly dark.”
“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity”
“Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.”
“What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.”
“The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.”

Source : "Effective Leadership Communications: It's More Than Talk" by John Baldoni, hbr.org. April 1, 2002.

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