Alonzo Mourning Quotes

Come on, man. He's 24 years old. When I was 24 years old, I could play all year round. I was always looking for a run. Always.

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• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Time
  • Democracy

• There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Where

• Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Water
  • Powerful
  • Ocean

• For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Did
  • Transportation

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Life
  • Country
  • Right

• My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • New York

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Business
  • Learned
  • Roll

• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Rule
  • Student
  • Diary

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Wish
  • Kind
  • Simple

• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Future
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Career

• After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Said

• The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Good
  • Death
  • Horse

• I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Strategy
  • Link

• Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

  

  David W. Orr
  • Giving
  • Despair
  • Environmental

• Come on, man. He's 24 years old. When I was 24 years old, I could play all year round. I was always looking for a run. Always.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Play
  • Years
  • Run