"I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure."

-- Marion Jones

#Running Quotes #Failure Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.”
“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”
“My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.”

Source : Jesmyn Ward (2011). “Salvage the Bones: A Novel”, p.277, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.”
“Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.248, Allison & Busby
“The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.”
“I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national level. I just don't think we can run away from it anymore.”

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com
“I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.”

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