David Swing Quotes

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

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• I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Kids
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Love
  • Game
  • Day-Out

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Men
  • Black
  • California

• Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Future
  • Progress

• A hooker once told me she had a headache.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Told
  • Headache

• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Americans
  • Generations
  • Union

• I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Men
  • Prayer

• I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

  

  John Musker
  • Fans
  • Term
  • Bigs

• Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

  

  Plato
  • Battle
  • Dead
  • Enjoy Life

• Be a voice not an echo.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Voice
  • Echo

• Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Mind
  • Search
  • Say

• The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Advantage
  • Condition
  • Socialism

• I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Fan
  • Superhero
  • Becomes

• All great art is born of the metropolis.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Born
  • Metropolis

• Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

  

  David Swing
  • Condition
  • Contrast
  • Becomes