"Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them."

-- Richard Siken

#Sides Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Ends Quotes

“The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined.”

Source : "CDC: ‘Window Is Closing’ on Containing Ebola" by Abby Haglage, www.thedailybeast.com. September 2, 2014.
“There are different 'It' factors for different players. There are all kinds of different personalities of quarterbacks around the league, but there are a lot of good ones and they don't necessarily think and act alike. But I do think there are moments during games even on the collegiate level where you can see that this guys is something different, someone sees things differently, they see things a little bit quicker, they're a little bit more cognizant of what's going on. I think it's something like that.”
“Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.”
“I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.”
“Sometimes I think thereâ€™s someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet thereâ€™s an angelâ€”or, more likely, a demonâ€”assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus.”
“As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.”
“One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.”

Source : Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter
“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

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