"Ah, Jenks? Itâ€™s not a lake, itâ€™s a frigginâ€™ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. Iâ€™m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas."

-- Kim Harrison

#Ocean Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.”
“I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.”
“But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.”
“'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is something more. Inspired by the Father, each procession of the Light spreads itself generously toward us, and, in its power to unify, it stirs us by lifting us up. It returns us back to the oneness and deifying simplicity of the Father who gathers us in. For, as the sacred Word says, 'from Him and to Him are all things' (Rom. 11:36).”
“The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats, the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed completely.”
“I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.”

Source : "Live coverage of GOP conference speakers Bobby Jindal, Phil Robertson at 6 p.m." by Adriane Quinlan, www.nola.com. May 29, 2014.
“Making new friends is tough. You don't really know who to trust when you're away from people that you love a lot.”
“Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.”

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