Adam Wainwright Quotes

If I'm not going to be a starter, I'd like to have a chance to get in there and play a lot. That's what I'm doing now, and I feel like I'm contributing to the team. I'm just having fun being in the big leagues, for one. It's a different world up here.

Adam Wainwright

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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Scared

• I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Yourself
  • Win
  • Tough

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Help
  • Rich
  • Down

• My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Better

• He who awaits much can expect little.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Expect
  • Little
  • Much

• The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • American
  • Debate

• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Way
  • Best
  • Meditation

• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Giving
  • Morning
  • Wise

• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Place
  • Cruelty
  • Stands

• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Truth
  • Hope

• Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Laughing
  • Truth Is
  • Abyss

• As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

  

  Sallust
  • Health
  • Fall
  • Beginning

• Mendelssohn is the inventor of religious kitsch in music. His first essay in this genre is a masterpiece, the Fugue in E Minor, published in 1837 but written ten years earlier, when the composer was eighteen ...

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Music
  • Religious

• Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

  

  Rick Astley
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Army

• If I'm not going to be a starter, I'd like to have a chance to get in there and play a lot. That's what I'm doing now, and I feel like I'm contributing to the team. I'm just having fun being in the big leagues, for one. It's a different world up here.

  

  Adam Wainwright
  • Team
  • Play
  • Leagues