Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant.

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• The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Game

• My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Trouble
  • Iron

• When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Real
  • Game
  • Running

• Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Game
  • Worry

• If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Amazing

• I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Why
  • Game
  • Team

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Game
  • Famous

• When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Game
  • Baseball

• I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • Lose
  • Three

• I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Kids
  • Game
  • House

• On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Game
  • Day
  • Fruit

• The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Football

• I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Bad
  • Game
  • Best

• A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • People
  • God
  • Fun

• I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Down

• The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is to see a husband and his wife and their children happy at home, protected by the principles and laws of the gospel, sealed safely in the covenants of the everlasting priesthood. Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Children
  • Church
  • Laws

• You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Movie

• Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

  

  Gene Robinson
  • God
  • Ego

• Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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