#mara

But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself. ↗

— Meb Keflezighi

#marathon #running #dreams

My father might be right. If I lost Noah, I might just lose my mind. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#michelle-hodkin #noah-shaw #the-evolution-of-mara-dyer #evolution

Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. ↗

— Jean-Paul Marat

#politics #pragmatism #sad-but-true #poverty

Asscrown," I muttered under my breath as I headed to my next class. I wasn't proud of swearing at a complete stranger, no. but he started it. Noah matched my pace. "Don't you mean 'assclown'?" He looked amused. "No," I said, louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses," I said, as though I was reading from a dictionary of modern profanity. "I guess you nailed me then. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#mara-dyer #noah-shaw #humour

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel. ↗

— Michael Bay

#crews #directing #event #excel #great

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#kiss #mara-dyer #noah-shaw #ya #regret

And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other. ↗

— Delta Burke

#care #each #everybody #french #live

I belonged to another club, and liked the camaraderie. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#belonged #camaraderie #club #i #liked

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#camaraderie #friends #had #i #kid

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#being #best #big #business #camaraderie