Colin Fletcher Quotes

The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life’s most luxurious rewards.

Colin Fletcher

• Body
• Driving
• Act
• Rewards
• Relaxing
• Satisfactions

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • School
  • Reason
  • Prison

• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Done
  • Everything

• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • King
  • Sound

• Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Money
  • Idea

• Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Model
  • Class
  • Lingerie

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Work
  • Different
  • Character

• It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Game
  • Law
  • Winning

• Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Enemy
  • Down
  • Hunting

• The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Create
  • Expectations

• I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Criticism
  • Worst
  • Own

• Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • God
  • Love
  • Kindness

• It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Gun

• Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Garden

• We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Different
  • May

• My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Priority

• The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life’s most luxurious rewards.

  

  Colin Fletcher
  • Body
  • Driving
  • Act