"Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled."

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Source : Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Selected poems”, Harvard Univ Pr

Antonio Machado

#Patience Quotes #Running Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo", www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.
“The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.”
“Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.”
“It's important for all types of women to know that you don't have to fit a prototype of what one person thinks is beautiful in order to be beautiful or feel beautiful.... People think, Sexy, big breasts, curvy body, no cellulite. It's not that. Take the girl at the beach with the cellulite legs, wearing her bathing suit the way she likes it, walking with a certain air, comfortable with herself. That woman is sexy. Then you see the perfect girl who's really thin, tugging at her bathing suit, wondering how her hair looks. That's not sexy.”
“What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.”
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.”
“Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.”
“It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.”

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