"We really canâ€™t change the world. We really canâ€™t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!"

-- Ammon Hennacy

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.”

Source : "The Poetry of War 1939-45". Book edited by Ian Hamilton, 1965.
“I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.”

Source : Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.
“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.”
“I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.”
“For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.”
“Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.”
“Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.”
“A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....”

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