"Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing."

-- John Kessel

#Sports Quotes #Trying Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]”
“And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”

Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada
“I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.”
“I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?”

Source : Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1938). “Collected Poems”
“hope your birthday is hot hot hot”
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Oâ€™er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. â€œGet me out!â€ I said, advising, â€œPluck me from this jail of text- or I swear Iâ€™ll wring your neck!”
“I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone”

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