Impoverishing A Continent Quotes & Sayings

Random thinking is the enemy of the ultramarathoner. Thinking is best used for the primitive essentials: when I ate last, the distance to the next aid station, the location of the competition, my pace. Other than those considerations, the key is to become immersed in the present moment where nothing else matters. — Scott Jurek

Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms. — Victor Ponta

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with ... — Gerard K. O'Neill

When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our perception, because the same person is not necessarily attractive to other people.In relationship, whenever we're drawn to someone or repelled by someone, they're both mirrors of the self. We're attracted to people in whom we find traits that we want or desire in our own selves. And we are repelled by people in whom we find traits that we're denying in ourselves. So relationship is a true mirror of where we are in our evolution in consciousness. — Deepak Chopra

Everything known and referred to as "impossible" is often what has not been attempted before. It will always have a change of name once it's attempted! — Israelmore Ayivor

Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New York were so unbalanced. They were totally untouched by the rhythms of nature. You were only aware of nature when something extreme happened, like a snowstorm or heatwave. — Susan Minot

The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way. — David Lloyd

I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist. — OMI

I think you could wear a paper bag and still look good. — Robin Bielman

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs. — Hope Davis

Hings are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. — Muhammad Yunus

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick. — Umberto Eco

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy. — Edward Abbey

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like. — Candace Bushnell

The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country. — Ilan Ramon