"Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair"

-- Nelson Mandela

#Sports Quotes #Despair Quotes

“If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.”
“Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company
“A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.”

Source : Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.247, Boston : Little, Brown
“The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.”
“How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.”

Source : "Debbie Harry: 'I'm more anonymous than Gaga or Madonna. I'm more of a cult figure'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.
“So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.”
“Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...”
“I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.”

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