J. M. Roberts Quotes

Roberts pulled out of the 1998 Masters after breaking two ribs while sneezing. The sneeze 'sent me to my knees and I kind of felt something pop,' he reported. Wrote Golf Magazine columnist David Feherty: 'He was lucky. If it had been a (lower intestinal emission), he might have shattered his pelvis.'

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• For PSP, we play the 'SOCOM' game as a team on the plane, and it's pretty cool because you can connect to everyone.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
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• I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Life
  • Up
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• My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Men
  • Book
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• Happy birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • She
  • Happy

• As I was smoothing on the last handful across the top of my thigh, I noticed I had company. Lewus was standing there watching me, eyes half-closed but not in the least sleepy. He'd put on his blue jeans, but nothing else... very sexy. I couldn't help but take in the view.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Help
  • Eyes
  • Blue

• THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Heart
  • Hearts
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• My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Career
  • Adapt
  • VIP

• To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Inner Strength

• You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

  

  Zach Sobiech
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Live Life

• A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Christian
  • Religion
  • Deep Thought

• For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • Destiny

• I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
  • Trying
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• We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Problems
  • Lord

• We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Action
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• And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • World
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• I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Wanted
  • Journal
  • Pauses

• Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Sometimes
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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • Dance
  • Eye

• You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Masters
  • Craft
  • Circus

• The challenge is: How can people gain control over the residues of past trauma and return to being masters of their own ship? Talking, understanding, and human connections help, and drugs can dampen hyperactive alarm systems. But we will also see that the imprints from the past can be transformed by having physical experiences that directly contradict the helplessness, rage, and collapse that are part of trauma, and thereby regaining self-mastery.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Help
  • Challenge
  • Human

• Roberts pulled out of the 1998 Masters after breaking two ribs while sneezing. The sneeze 'sent me to my knees and I kind of felt something pop,' he reported. Wrote Golf Magazine columnist David Feherty: 'He was lucky. If it had been a (lower intestinal emission), he might have shattered his pelvis.'

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Masters
  • Breaking
  • Ribs