"I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up."

-- Ezra Taft Benson

#Leader Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.”
“It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone it begins when you're born. Or before that, when your parents got married. Or before that, when your parents were born. Or when your ancestors colonised the place. Or when humans came squishing out of the mud and slime, dropped off their flippers and fins, and started to walk. But all the same, all that aside, for what's happened to us there was quite a definite beginning”
“In a life properly lived, youâ€™re a river,”
“I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.”
“She was thinking what I think she was thinking, wasn't she?”
“Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.”
“Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.”

Source : Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.194, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.”

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