James Snyder Quotes

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

James Snyder

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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Family
  • School
  • Kids

• It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Long
  • You
  • Possible

• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Strange
  • Places
  • Far

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Blind

• I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Environment

• I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Proud
  • United States
  • Member

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Pain

• No man may make another free.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • May
  • Man
  • Free

• I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Life
  • World
  • Childhood

• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Better
  • Vanity
  • Slow

• Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Government
  • End
  • Principles

• Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Lincoln
  • Supremacy

• I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Food
  • Horse
  • Meat

• During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Desk

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• All these retailers these days are under pressure. Why? It's because... for the last 30 years, value equaled price. But now, value equals price, convenience, and a little bit of brand.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • Why
  • Value

• My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Father

• I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it. In the beginning, it was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Leadership
  • Psychology

• Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Song

• I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

  

  James Snyder
  • School
  • High
  • Player