You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMESCricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
More 3rd Baron Mancroft, Benjamin Mancroft Quotes
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
OG MANDINO -
When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. -
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
BABE RUTH -
I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
SYLVIA EARLE -
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
ANSEL ADAMS -
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLER -
Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we’ve made the wrong plans.
BETH MOORE -
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNE -
Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEAD -
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLE -
Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.
ADAM NICOLSON