Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
BARBARA SHERYou’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
BARNEY FRANK -
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
ARTHUR ASHE -
I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, “Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there’s more things than tennis.” That’s what happened.
BORIS KODJOE -
About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
AL YANKOVIC -
I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
ANGELA DAVIS -
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
JIM MORRISON -
Sometimes the loneliest place to be is in love.
LANG LEAV -
Just when I think the human race has been lost to the “what about me” people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.
BILL ENGVALL -
If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
AL-GHAZALI -
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
ABERJHANI -
Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain’s defence for the last 60 years… I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
BOB AINSWORTH -
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
HANNAH ARENDT -
She wraps her cleansed mirrored soul around the filthy dirty lungs to free them towards sanity.
DR. ZAINAB ANSARI -
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Work is making a living out of being bored.
KARL LAGERFELD