"Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction."

-- Ron Suskind

#Conviction Quotes #Rumble Quotes #Furnaces Quotes

“Once people couldn't trust the college game, some checked out the pro game, but that was in big trouble, too. We had no clock and a lot of faults. People looked at the slow pace and at big guys like George Mikan and said pro basketball was just for overgrown pituitary cases. Baseball and football were numbers one and two and pro basketball wasn't even in the same universe.”

Source : Source: alanpaul.net
“WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEYâ€™VE DONE HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN DEFINED BY FEARLESSNESS. STOP LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER - THEREâ€™S NOBODY WHO MATTERS BACK THERE.”
“I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.”
“We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it..”
“The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.”
“Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.”

Source : Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”
“Punishment is justice for the unjust.”
“Religion dies hard in the Irish.”

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