Elliott White Springs Quotes

The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.

Elliott White Springs

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• It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Death
  • Better

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Know
  • Player
  • Fans

• Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Today
  • Alone
  • Journey

• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • History
  • End
  • Conflict

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Never

• In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Black
  • Person
  • Human

• If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Life
  • You
  • Whole

• I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

  

  Carly Craig
  • She
  • Character
  • Song

• Manipulated, one manipulates others.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

  

  Frankie Avalon

• Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.

  

  Matt Cartwright
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Health

• Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • God

• While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Up
  • Important
  • Real

• One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • She
  • Mother
  • Son

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Speak
  • Leave
  • Themselves

• Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Age
  • Man

• I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Friends

• You guys know what this represents? Maybe it's the calm before the storm. Reporter: What's the storm? Could be the calm, the calm, before the storm. Reporter: What storm Mr. President? We have the world's great military people in this room, I'll tell you that, and we're going to have a great evening. Reporter: What storm Mr. President? You'll find out.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Music
  • Trust

• The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.

  

  Elliott White Springs
  • Game
  • Wine
  • Gods