"When youre young, you dont think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You dont think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health."

-- Katarina Witt

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Competition Quotes

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”
“conversation is now pretty well a lost art.”

Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold
“Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.”
“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.”
“Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no holy wings: It stands with honest feet in honest dust, And is the body's blossoming in clear air Of trustfulness and joyance when alone Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair And claim that Paradise which is their own. Amid a universe of sweat and blood, Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate, Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood Of the loud world, in secret ere too late A gentle sacrament may celebrate Before their private altar of the good.”
“It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.437, Canongate Books
“We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.”

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