"A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets."

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John Ray

#Running Quotes #Talking Quotes #Secret Quotes

“The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.”

Source : "NASA mulls threat from protrusions". www.cnn.com. August 1, 2005.
“Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.”

Source : Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.”
“Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.”
“Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.”
“I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.”
“It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.”
“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”

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