"The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me."

-- Lance Armstrong

#Couple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cycling Quotes

“We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.”
“Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.”
“He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.”
“Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours”

Source : William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon
“What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.”
“My paintings used to be so realistic and I found it a little bit boring, especially now that I'm in New York. I wanted to be more free, first in my mind and then, slowly, in my work. Many artists have these jumps in their work and at some point it looks like a supermarket. For me it was important to develop.”
“Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.”
“If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.”

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