"Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!"

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Thomas Russell

#Wind Quotes #Sea Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The coaches of some players who are my own age keep saying publically about me: "This guy is going to be one of the greats." I am clever enough to know that they do not truthfully think so. They are trying to shake my confidence. Of course, this is a matter of tactics.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I spent a week there one afternoon.”
“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

Source : Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion
“I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.”
“If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaismâ€™s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th centuryâ€™s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that Iâ€™m impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?”
“Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!”
“We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”
“When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?”

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