Adrian Chiles Quotes

Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

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• It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Hard
  • Out
  • Pick

• Clearly, we have compiled a record of serious failures in recent technological encounters with the environment. In each case, the new technology was brought into use before the ultimate hazards were known. We have been quick to reap the benefits and slow to comprehend the costs.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Technology
  • Environment
  • Serious

• When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Competition

• For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

  

  May Sinclair
  • Mind
  • Violence
  • Authority

• We are all part of the ecosystem.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Ecosystems

• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Wonder

• The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Sea

• Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]

  

  Alcuin
  • God
  • Thinks
  • Directs

• I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Remember
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Child
  • Ambition
  • Emulation

• It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Happens
  • Emptiness
  • Grieving

• Now we have players who are young in age, but they have experience under their belts. Something could happen at any time, they could take it to the next level. We're there, we're competing with everyone, but taking it to the next level is the thing.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • Experience
  • Players
  • Next Level

• Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Firsts
  • Novel
  • Seven

• Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

  

  Adrian Chiles
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