Fitgers 5k Quotes

#1. To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Oskar Homolka

#2. I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

Darren Criss

#3. I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

Lee Whitnum

#4. See yourself as you really are.
Accept the good and the bad.
Only then can you truly share yourself with another.

Velyn Cooper

#5. You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

Tariq Ramadan

#6. Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."

Winston Churchill

#7. Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Theocritus

#8. So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

Junot Diaz

#9. I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

Morgan Ensberg

#10. Ignorance is not bliss. That platitude is totally wrong. You will not be intellectually happier if you know fewer things. Learning should be a primary goal of living. But what if ignorance feels better - not psychologically, but physically? That would explain a lot of human incongruities.

Chuck Klosterman

#11. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

Ben Bernanke

#12. (I never crush a relationship dead, I once boasted. Meaning: I always leave something in case I want to pick it up later.)

Jill Dawson

#13. But now I see there's no such thing as "a" woman, "one" woman. There are dozens inside every one of them. I probably should have figured this out sooner, but what child can see the women inside her mom, what with all the Motherness blocking out everything else?

Kelly Corrigan