Elaine Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • No one man is superior to the game.

  • Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

  • Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

  • For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.

  • The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  • Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

  • I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

  • Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.

  • Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.

  • Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

You may also like: