"If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds."

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Source : "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

Jesse Jackson

#Running Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Philosophical Quotes

“Remember to never answer a phone during sex, even if you hilariously answer with 'I can't talk now, I'm going into a tunnel'.”
“Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.8, Grove Press
“I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, 'You're great.' We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.”
“Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.”
“Leaving his country for his country's sake.”
“Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.”
“I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.”
“Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.”

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