"When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you."

-- David Brooks

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.”
“I prefer to not be feeling like I'm having to be fake about things that are the most dear to me in terms of writing, which is something related to my own, personal writing. I mean, I've done tons and tons of fake writing.”
“Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.”
“Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.”
“Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.”
“Stop the nurse like the monkey.”
“I believe if God doesn't give you a miracle, you are a miracle of God for somebody else's salvation.”
“Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.”

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