Kevin Durant Quotes

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

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• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Fortune
  • Duration
  • Pays

• I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Believe
  • End

• A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Society
  • Past

• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Idea

• I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Done
  • Book

• Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Together
  • Working Together

• I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Music
  • Money
  • Business

• The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Lucky

• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Taken
  • Child
  • Liberty

• I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Relationships

• Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges, as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen's basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Law
  • Sex
  • Inspired

• No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • True
  • Same
  • Presence

• I love my country so much.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Country
  • Love
  • Much

• For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Architecture

• Mit allen ihren Mängeln erscheint diese Konstitution mitten in der russisch−preußisch−österreichischen Barbarei als das einzige Freiheitswerk, das Osteuropa je selbständig hervorgebracht hat. Und sie ging ausschließlich von der bevorrechteten Klasse, dem Adel, aus. Die Weltgeschichte bietet kein andres Beispiel von ähnlichem Adel des Adels.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art

• There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

  

  Iain Banks

• If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Said
  • Smell
  • Wounded

• It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'

  

  Margarita Simonyan

• I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

  

  Kevin Durant