Brandon Spikes Quotes

You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

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• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Help
  • Stories
  • Young

• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Proud
  • Always
  • Something

• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • You
  • Change
  • Opinion

• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Determination

• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • Think
  • Enthusiastic

• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Smart

• I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Intuition
  • Big
  • Decide

• If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Time
  • May
  • Taken

• I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Ive always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• If you didn't keep a win-loss total, he'd still want to go out there. The guy wants the responsibility that comes with being as starting pitcher. 'This is my job.' I love that about Roger Clemens.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Responsibility

• Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Labor
  • Source
  • Human Comforts

• People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.

  

  John Marston
  • People
  • Forget
  • Forgiven

• Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Feel
  • Force
  • Novel

• Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Spring
  • Force

• I think I went through early years of my career sort of thinking, "Well, maybe I'm just not British enough." And I always remember my father saying to me, "Don't think you're English, because however English you feel, some Englishman is going to remind you that you're not." Now, for him it must have been a much more acute experience, because he immigrated to England. I was born there, so I kind of felt I had the right to assume that I was British, but it's true. The English are a very warm and welcoming people, but there's a streak in there that reminds you, occasionally.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

  

  Brandon Spikes
  • Force
  • Legs
  • Trenches