Famous Distance Runners Quotes & Sayings

Yet surely that story she had imagined was a real thing? If you created a story with your mind surely it was just as much there as a piece of needlework that you created with your fingers? You could not see it with your bodily eyes, that was all ... the invisible world must be saturated with the stories that men tell both in their minds and by their lives. They must be everywhere, these stories, twisting together, penetrating existence like air breathed into the lungs, and how terrible, how awful, thought Henrietta, if the air breathed should be foul. How dare men live, how dare they think or imagine, when every action and every thought is a tiny thread to ar or enrich that tremendous tapestried story that man weaves on the loom that God has set up, a loom that stretches from heaven above to hell below, and from side to side of the universe ... — Elizabeth Goudge

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. — Bono

Faintly he smiled, but his voice was hard. "Lass, you do not want what I have." As if to prove it, he overturned his hand and dragged a calloused thumb roughly across her bottom lip.

All the breath came out of her in a hot rush. "Oh."
~From THE KING'S OUTLAW, part of the Captured by a Celtic Warrior anthology — Kris Kennedy

The idiot wrote that message on his utility bill. — Jana Deleon

...lookin' like a high I wanna be on — Blake Shelton

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. — Bob Edwards

Whatever the future holds, we'll face it together, Jack. Our job is not to predict the future, but rather to build it. — Matt Myklusch

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears. — Jim Butcher

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity. — Anton Chekhov

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present. — Richard G. Scott

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk. — Maximilian Schell

Of course, you can't spend all of your time listening to random inputs. But you should be open to them. As you keep doing it, you will develop a feel for whose views are apt to contain gems of information and a sense of who will take advantage of your openness to clutter you with noise. Over time, then, you can adjust your receptivity accordingly. — Andrew S. Grove

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person. — Barkhad Abdi