"I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me."

-- Kara Goucher

#Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Race Quotes

“In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.”
“President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.”

Source : Ken Follett (2011). “Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy”, p.347, Penguin
“If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.”

Source : Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.45, SPCK
“Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?”
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
“I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.”
“Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.”
“What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.”

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