"Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me."

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Source : Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

Colin Fletcher

#Clothes Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Haste Quotes

“Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.”
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
“The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it's about. I think the Greens in this upcoming state election should resign if they're being funded by an offshore political power. It's tantamount to treason and something needs to be done about it.”
“Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.”
“As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.”
“Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.”
“Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.”

Source : Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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