"I also remember riding home from a wonderful day with only my bathing shorts, losing the chain of my bicycle, having no hand breaks, and slipping high speed on a street covered with stones. I had to go to the hospital."

-- Volker Bertelmann

#Home Quotes #Hands Quotes #Slipping Quotes

“History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.”

Source : John Smith, Edward Arber, Arthur Granville Bradley (1967*). “Travels and works”
“Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)”
“The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.”
“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Stormbreaker”, p.187, Penguin
“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”
“Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, â€˜Donâ€™t risk it.â€™ Because itâ€™s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.”

Source : Sabrina Jeffries (2012). “A Lady Never Surrenders”, p.379, Simon and Schuster
“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.”
“If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, â€œWow, that was awesome?â€ Or would they scratch their heads and say, â€œI wonder what that was all about?”

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