Amby Burfoot Quotes
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.Amby Burfoot
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
Vera Farmiga -
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
Kara Swisher -
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney -
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
Kate Hudson -
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
Walter Dean Myers -
I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
Dan Jenkins -
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
Nawal El Saadawi -
The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
Harold Hamm -
Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
M. Ward -
We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
Damian Woetzel
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
Cameron Sinclair -
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael -
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock.
Saint Patrick -
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce
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We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Jean Toomer -
Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.
Andrew Bernstein -
What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
Carlos Fuentes -
My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.
Paula Yates -
Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.
Bhumibol Adulyadej -
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.
Amby Burfoot