"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything."

-- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#Life Quotes #Running Quotes #House Quotes

“You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at everything.”
“I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.”
“I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.”
“Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.”
“Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.”
“While Daddy liked to stick to the rules, Mummy liked to bend them.”
“A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.”

Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books
“My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.”

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