It’s nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.
Author: Tim WakefieldWords: knows, stop, control, nice, trouble
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Author: Denis WaitleyTheme: Experience, Life, LoveWords: finding, daily, essence
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
Author: Bayard TaylorTheme: LoveWords: tender, bravest
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
Author: Lalu Prasad YadavTheme: Society, Funny, WorkWords: mind, heart, hope, poor
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it’s possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes – clashes of ego.
Author: Taylor HackfordTheme: Time, Art, SocietyWords: possible, everyone, saying, needs, culture
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
Author: Brock YatesTheme: Car, NatureWords: cause, effect, generally, vast, contrary, confused, landscape
If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.
Author: Andy TaylorTheme: Love, Work, MusicWords: looking, career, rock, band, pick
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Author: Jose MartiWords: difficult, simple, talent, attempt, useful, oneself, dignity
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTheme: Death, SocietyWords: nation, save, mankind, destruction, devote
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
Author: Judith MartinTheme: Love, Country, WomenWords: political, basic
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Author: Edward CokeWords: commit, treason, outlawed
A ‘new thinker’, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Author: Frank Moore ColbyTheme: SocietyWords: merely, closely, studied, thinker
Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
Author: Edwin Louis ColeTheme: Faith, Religion
I don’t have any friends and don’t have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they’re not really your friends. They’re only there because you’re a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
Author: Gary ColemanTheme: Society, SuccessWords: talk, behind, steal, intention, celebrity
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren’t huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
Author: Paula ColeTheme: HappinessWords: walk, aren’t, older, darkness
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
Author: Morris Raphael CohenTheme: BusinessWords: simply, interest, follow, suppose, concern
Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
Author: Juan ColeTheme: PoliticsWords: classroom
I’m competitive with anyone who writes a good song – I don’t care if it’s a band or solo artist or whoever.
Author: Chris MartinTheme: Art, MusicWords: care, anyone, song, artist, band, solo
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
Author: Edwin Louis ColeTheme: Art, ReadingWords: form, artist
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
Author: Leonard CohenTheme: Depression, NatureWords: sense, finds, term, occurred, landscape
As governor, I’m spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
Author: Jack MarkellTheme: Government, TimeWords: three, creating, spending
The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
Author: Howard CobleTheme: PoliticsWords: freedom, democracy, closer
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
Author: Ziggy MarleyTheme: TimeWords: teach, teacher, financed
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
Author: Daniel ClowesTheme: Business, LoveWords: individual, proud, comic, medium
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
Author: George C. MarshallWords: road, straight, frankly, evasion
I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.
Author: Julianna MarguliesTheme: Work, Time, ExperienceWords: possible, everyone, bring, wonderful
Whether a woman’s running for office or she’s supporting her husband who’s running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there’s just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
Author: Hillary ClintonTheme: Work, History, MenWords: political, gets, running, bear, office
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
Author: Ziggy MarleyTheme: PetWords: buy, store, mouse
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Author: Ferdinand MarcosTheme: LeadershipWords: act, side, acting, accept, leader, loneliness
It doesn’t upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Author: Chuck CloseTheme: ArtWords: certainly, upset
I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
Author: Clarence ClemonsTheme: Love, Health, CountryWords: growing, cooking, southern
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
Author: Thomas ClarksonTheme: TimeWords: expect, event, circumstance, remembered, produced, slavery
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Author: Voltairine de CleyreTheme: Women, MenWords: worth, expect, liberty
If I’ve been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.
Author: Julian ClaryTheme: TimeWords: speak, bus
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
Author: ClaudiusWords: lord
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation – not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.
Author: Michael E. MannTheme: Change, Health, EnvironmentalWords: planet, climate, host
Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.
Author: Tom MannWords: serious, seriously, advantage, politician
Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
Author: Thomas E. MannTheme: PoliticsWords: political, process, party, risk, deeply, gain
I finally said, I can’t live being carried by this wake.
Author: Marla MaplesWords: finally, wake, carried
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
Author: James ClavellTheme: WorkWords: world, truth, dangerous, search