Boris Becker Quotes

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

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• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• There will never be talking pictures.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Never
  • Talking
  • Pictures

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Speak
  • Yourself

• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Cancer

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
  • Modern

• There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Man
  • Know
  • Temptation

• In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Democracy
  • Persons
  • Marginalized

• We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Art

• I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Work

• “Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.”

  

  Alexis De Veaux
  • Politics
  • Word
  • Now

• A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Reading
  • Son