Marathoners In Training Quotes & Sayings

I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential. — James D. Watson

We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL — Mother Teresa

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry. — Edward Hirsch

My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own.
My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own! — Cas Lester

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God. — Willie Stargell

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. — Virginia Woolf

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming — George Gordon Byron

All imaginable futures are not equally possible. — Kevin Kelly

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union. — Edmund Phelps

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. — Tracy Kidder

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name. — Henry A. Kissinger

Indeed, the zeal of Boston's rank-and-file marathoners rivaled, and in some ways echoed, the religious passion of Nathaniel Howe and his congregation. The runners indulged in orgies of self-denial-running 100 miles a week, working junk )ohs in order to have time to train, paying their own way to races, banding together in ascetic cells, forgoing the temptations of an idolatrous world in order to attain grace and salvation out on the road. As in Puritan New England, grace was not blithely attained. A believer-a runner-earned it by losing toenails and training down to bone and muscle, just as the Puritans formed calluses on their knees from
praying. No one made a cent from their strenuous efforts. The running life, like the spiritual life, was its own reward. — John Brant

Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs — Nicki Minaj

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn