Quotes
Authors
Barbara Kingsolver

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost canâ€™t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. Thatâ€™s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Running Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Wall Quotes

“If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”
“There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.”
“I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.”
“When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.”
“I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.”
“I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy.”
“I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.”
“When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble,”

Source : "Base Jumper Felix Baumgartner". Interview, www.nationalgeographic.com. October 31, 2012.

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