quotes about Unexplainable

“The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 22, 2012

“It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.”

“There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.”

“Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.”

“A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.”

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”

Source : Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

“Television is such a mediocre medium.”

“I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.”

“Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.”

Source : Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.42, Penguin

“I always want to work with people that I can grow with.”