"... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Thinking Quotes #Race Quotes #Two Quotes

“You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.”
“Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.”
“I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.”

Source : Song: Workin' At The Car Wash Blues
“Put your backbone where your wishbone is.”

Source : Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.78, Penguin Books India
“There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.”
“When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.”
“Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus Sermon on the Mount. It would be so cool to see what he was really like in person.”

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