"Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times."

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Source : "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

Aimee Mullins

#Giving Up Quotes #Get Better Quotes #Roller Coaster Quotes

“I can tell you my feelings were hurt.”
“All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.”

Source : "McNamara in Context" by Errol Morris, www.nytimes.com. July 8, 2009.
“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.”
“We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent itself to other professional bodies and with central government.”

Source : "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.
“The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.”
“The best proof of love is trust.”

Source : "Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul : 101 Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter" by Jack Canfield, (p. 25), 2001.
“I am the president now, the president of everybody.”
“I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.”

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