"I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat."

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Markus Zusak

#Brother Quotes #People Quotes #Boxing Quotes

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.”
“Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oÆ’ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”
“Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.”
“With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.”
“Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.”
“As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.”
“Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Harbour”, p.232, Hachette UK
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”

Source : Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.94, Random House

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