Chris Evert Quotes

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

Chris Evert

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• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Up
  • War
  • Action

• Music is like the soul of the planet.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Like

• The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • May
  • Community

• It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.

  

  Natasha Little
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Thought

• My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, 'I want to do standup in 30 minutes,' and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, 'I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Work
  • City

• Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Career
  • Profound
  • Impact

• You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Trying

• What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Amazing

• Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.

  

  Elizabeth Berg

• Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Fear

• Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Life
  • Trying
  • American

• Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Good
  • Light
  • Waiting

• To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Successful
  • Convenient

• Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Mean

• What is important is to find the best solution for your players.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Important

• When you're 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you're going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like 'Parenthood.' I didn't feel the need to change anything I was doing - I embraced it.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Anything
  • Parenthood
  • Embraced

• I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • Up

• Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

  

  Chris Evert