People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.
It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'.
Bruce Schneier
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
George Eliot
Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.
Kirsten Zambucka
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
Chris Hughes
Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
Jan Zamoiski
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
Trey Parker
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
Stephen King
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
Amy Sedaris
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
Stephen Cambone
If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.
Christopher Hitchens
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
Robert Caro
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire
I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.
Steven Cojocaru
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
Ambrose Bierce
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anon.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Clara Barton
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.
Gayle King
Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
Benjamin Franklin
If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.
Khloe Kardashian
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adve
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott Card
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Martha Beck
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.
Neil Gaiman
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
John Conyers
I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads.
Steven Wright
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
Warren Miller
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