"How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes."

-- Jonathan Franzen

#Running Quotes #Negative Quotes #Said Quotes

“In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.”
“The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.”
“I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.”
“The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.”
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”

Source : John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.110, Taylor & Francis
“The game has never seen a better catcher than YADIER MOLINA.”

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