"We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things."

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Source : John Wesley Powell (2003). “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”, p.268, Penguin

John Wesley Powell

#Running Quotes #Wall Quotes #Distance Quotes

“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).
“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
“I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.”
“Good things, when short, are twice as good.”
“My personal style is ever changing.”

Source : "New Jane By Design Deets!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2012.
“THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.”
“I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.”

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