"No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me."

-- Steve Prefontaine

#Running Quotes #Winning Quotes #Two Quotes

“They that make laws must not break them.”
“On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favorite of which was from Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.127, Anchor
“One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.”
“Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.”
“I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.”
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet... What we need is not division; what we need is not hatred, but love and compassion toward one another and a feeling of justice toward those who suffer within our community, whatever their color or faith. Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
“One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.”

Source : Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (1998). “Tony Kushner in Conversation”, p.148, University of Michigan Press
“My mother insisted that her children read.”

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