"It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..."

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Source : Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

Theodore Roosevelt

#Men Quotes #Arena Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand.”

Source : Song: Twilight
“WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.”
“A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.”
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
“I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.”
“It's against the law in India to marry off a girl under the age of 18, as it is in many parts of the world. But India has more child brides than any other country, and they become mothers early in life. The population continues to grow; it is likely to overtake China as the most populous nation within this decade.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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