He hadn't developed into the accomplished running quarterback many had predicted he would become over the course of the season. But he had come to personify this team. He was raw and untested when the season began, but he played his two best games in...
...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing...
Writing isn't about creating perfect characters. There's no such thing. It's about creating characters that are real; flawed-- yet beautiful, in that they know they need another person. Needing someone else doesn't make them weak; if they believed al...
I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hu...
[Chunk drinks from a water cooler while the others try to figure out how to get through the floor] Mouth: I've got an idea. Why don't we just spread chocolate all over the floor and let Chunk eat his way through? Chunk: Okay, Mouth. I've taken all I ...
Today I hope to live life. To wake each morning and persevere through the struggles. To understand that there is reason and purpose. I choose to find my path and strive upon it, rising everytime I fall. I choose to keep smiling through the pain, and ...
A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.
Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up
It is up to the people to feed the dogs; it's up to the Cardias to feed the Turks.
A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.
I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.
Dode: Shut up! Dode: Shut up! You're always talking! Always sensing out smarts! Dode: You're gonna shut up! Dode: You're not gonna talk! Dode: Shut! Up!
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.
I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.
You don’t always have to follow the rules. You have to stand for what you believe.
A brick could be used as a stand in for a liar’s face. Go on, punch that liar in his face.
It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.
