Top 22 Marla Runyan Quotes
#1. I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man.
A.E. Samaan
#2. Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.
Marla Runyan
#3. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.
Marla Runyan
#5. I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.
G. E. M. Skues
#6. Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.
Marla Runyan
#8. 15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
Betty Hill
#9. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure-
Colin Powell
#10. I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.
Mary Roach
#11. There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.
Marla Runyan
#12. I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.
Nouriel Roubini
#13. Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.
Marla Runyan
#14. The gooseneck," Badim adds, with a quick smile at Freya. "It connects the boom to the mast, but it isn't very robust.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#15. If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.
Marla Runyan
#16. She'd raised me in her image to be the one true friend she'd never had, and now neither of us would ever know the conversations we'd waited for all our lives.
Kate Bolick
#17. It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal ... but I wanted the pace to be honest.
Marla Runyan
#19. 'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#20. She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb 430 full of wolves,
Virgil
#21. If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.
Marla Runyan
#22. I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.
Marla Runyan
