Eugene Jarvis (Eugene Peyton Jarvis) Quotes

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

Eugene Jarvis

• Action
• Running
• Player
• Feels
• Fate
• Aggressive

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• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Running
  • Space
  • Hiking

• If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • Feels
  • For Her

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Country
  • Home
  • Player

• When it was time for a player to go, he went.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Time
  • Player
  • Go

• When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • America
  • Political
  • Fate

• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Wisdom
  • Better
  • Fate

• Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Job
  • Black

• I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Taken

• I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Rock
  • Player
  • Star

• The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

  

  Hannah More
  • Action

• The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Running

• You used to get people writing in to the Liverpool Echo saying, ‘Who is this Martian walking round town?’ I used to get battered. Going out for lunch was like running the gauntlet.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Running

• Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Freedom

• What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit - and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization - is an adequately specified theory of collective action whereby a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts.

  

  Elinor Ostrom
  • Action
  • Organization
  • Missing

• I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

  

  James Whistler
  • May
  • She
  • Nature

• I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Running

• My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Job
  • Camera

• If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Cold

• It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

  

  James Gray
  • American
  • Taken
  • Weird

• Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Values
  • Level
  • Relative

• I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

  

  Eugene Jarvis
  • Action
  • Running
  • Player