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 -
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 -
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 -
Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
Francesco Totti -
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 -
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
Park Geun-hye
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
Oliver Tambo -
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
C. K. Williams -
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 -
Manipulated, one manipulates others.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
Frankie Avalon -
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 -
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 -
My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.
Kina Grannis -
The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.
Kevin McCarthy -
My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'
Dick Van Dyke
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
Mario Cuomo -
I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
Samuel Dash -
Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
Wayne Rooney -
Our guys in the fourth quarter are fighting their guts out. I would hope that they'd start the game like that.
Joe Gibbs -
A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.
Confucius -
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