Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • People
  • Never
  • Try

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Child
  • Actor
  • Turn

• I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Better
  • Healthy

• The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Father
  • Religion
  • Son

• Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Death

• There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Diversity
  • Rights

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Strong

• Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Foundation

• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Different
  • Control
  • Best

• I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Optimistic
  • Qualities
  • Major

• Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • You
  • Where
  • Drop

• I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Know
  • Baby
  • Starting

• There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

  

  Andrew Mitchell

• Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

  

  Little Richard
  • Time
  • God
  • Elvis

• I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

  

  David Guetta
  • Career
  • Education
  • Proud

• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Moment

• I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them.

  

  Keith Belling

• I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Career
  • Gift
  • My Children