"This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us."

-- Chris Hedges

#War Quotes #Wind Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.”

Source : W Timothy Gallwey (2014). “The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance”, p.91, Pan Macmillan
“The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.”

Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“The issue of the pension gap has got to become visible and important to millions of people before Washington will respond seriously. Right now, everyone thinks it's his or her own problem and that individuals have to do better and save more. Of course, that is true. We all have to save more and take responsibility for our own retirement. But we have a huge social and economic problem on our hands.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.”
“Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.”
“Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.”
“For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.”

Source : Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.59, North Point Press

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