"Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends."

-- Dan Wakefield

#Sports Quotes #Team Quotes #War Quotes

“The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.”
“When I was a young actor, I just didn't understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it's called the film business for a reason, there's money involved. But on the flip side, nowadays I do not let the business side of it rule either. It's a balance.”
“That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin
“You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.”
“A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.”
“NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.”
“We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season.”
“Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.”

Source : Source: www.nytimes.com

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