"The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything."

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Source : Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

Jon Krakauer

#Epic Quotes #Journey Quotes #Odyssey Quotes

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
“I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.”
“Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.”
“So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.”
“As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.”
“And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.”

Source : "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.
“There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.”
“Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.”

Source : "Winter's Bone". Book by Daniel Woodrell, 2006.

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