#Years Quotes #Giving Quotes #Advice Quotes
“Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.”
“There are two options: adapt or die.”
“Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..”
Source : Radio Talk. BBC Radio 4, August 2, 1978.
“Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.”
“I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.”
“If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music?”
“And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.†She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.†- Cora”
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
David Boudia Olympic athlete
Jonathan Horton Gymnast
