"I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life."

-- Michael Phelps

#Dream Quotes #Passion Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people.”
“A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.”

Source : Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”
“I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.”
“I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.”
“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933...Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”
“Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.”
“How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?”

Source : Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.16, A&C Black
“I've grown into the person I am today.”

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