W. S. Di Piero Quotes

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• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • You
  • Run

• Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Why
  • You
  • Look

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Great
  • Military
  • Leader

• Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • Children
  • Future

• All of these battered husbands are still with their wives. When a woman stays with a man who batters, we provide shelters to encourage her to escape. If she decides not to escape, we say she is a victim of 'Battered Woman Syndrome.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She

• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hope

• Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Faith

• For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Deep
  • Wine

• In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Great
  • May

• 'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Emotional
  • Angry

• Bene è felice quel, donne mie care,Ch'essere accorto all'altrui spese impare.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Strong

• When we realize that we can see life we gradually give up the things that stand in the way of our complete awareness. As we paint we move along step by step. We realize that we are guided in our work by awareness of life.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Worry

• I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.

  

  John Travolta
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Today
  • Space
  • Architecture

• Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky,

  

  W. S. Di Piero
  • Sky