"The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time."

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Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.150, Random House

Rachel Joyce

#Feet Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.”

Source : Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book”, p.6, Open Road Media
“I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.”
“Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.”
“Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person...”
“Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.”
“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!”
“I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.”
“You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?”

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