"I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Thinking Quotes #Records Quotes #World Quotes

“All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”
“Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?”
“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
“Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.”
“We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.”
“I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!”
“Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Eighth Grade Bites #1: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.33, Penguin
“Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.”

Source : Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada

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