Killerton Parkrun Quotes & Sayings

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. Proverbs 18:21 — Joyce Meyer

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them. — Brian Tracy

I truly love my fans. Truly, truly from the heart. That's the real truth. I love them. — Michael Jackson

You were never my problem. You were my fucking answer. — Alicia Kobishop

They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects. — Dorothy L. Sayers

When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound. — Eric Betzig

These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is. — Pessoa, Fernando

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know? — Ayn Rand

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living. — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

When pride thaws, look for floods. — Philip James Bailey

The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all. — John Neihardt

And as long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather — Viktor E. Frankl

Somebody said combat is 99 percent sheer boredom and 1 percent pure terror. They weren't an MP in Iraq. On the roads I was scared all the time. Maybe not pure terror. That's for when the IED actually goes off. But a kind of low-grade terror that mixes with the boredom. So it's 50 percent boredom and 49 percent normal terror, which is a general feeling that you might die at any second and that everybody in this country wants to kill you. Then, of course, there's the 1 percent pure terror, when your heart rate skyrockets and your vision closes in and your hands are white and your body is humming. You can't think. You're just an animal, doing what you've been trained to do. And then you go back to normal terror, and you go back to being a human, and you go back to thinking. — Phil Klay