#ron

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#because #cannot #early #fast #makes

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ↗

— Martha Graham

#fire #gold #men #strong #strong men

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#environment #meet #objective #remains #track

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#going #i #mean #most #offensive

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#demanding #environment #ever #generation #i

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#best #difficulty #doubt #europe #four

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#certain #certain point #commitment #hoping #keeping

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#despotism #fetters #freedom #our #possessions

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#death #focus #hanging #irony #death