“ Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ”
- Walter Elliot- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing.... Blood doesn't run in races! Come on! ”
- Beah Richards- Copy
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“ This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven. ”
- George Moore- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
- 373
“ I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. ”
- Giuseppe Verdi- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
- 108
“ Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court. ”
- Michael Jackson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Yet, Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Every race I run in is in preparation for the Indianapolis 500. Indy is the most important thing in my life. It is what I live for. ”
- Al Unser- Copy
- 2.8K
“ We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
- 862
“ There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.2K
“ For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 909
“ Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. ”
- John Muir- Copy
- 1K
“ When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 2K
“ There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. ”
- Maria Edgeworth- Copy
- 2.8K
“ If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work… than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry… and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and… out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish. ”
- Elizabeth Prentiss- Copy
- 411
“ Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain — For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 3.7K
“ My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. ”
- Claudia Black- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If you leave the smallest corner of your mind open for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3K
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