"War is simple, direct, and ruthless."

-- George S. Patton

#War Quotes #Simple Quotes #Direct Quotes

“Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.”

Source : Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books
“When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.”
“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it wonâ€™t work.”

Source : Junot Diaz (2009). “Drown”, p.64, Faber & Faber
“The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.”
“In England we are sort of very awkward.”
“Youâ€™re like Marilyn Monroe,â€™ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous â€œThank Youâ€. Interrupting, he adds, â€˜Youâ€™re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because youâ€™re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say â€œHey! This toy is broken!â€ and toss you aside without feeling bad.”
“I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission will not only be uneconomical, but ridiculous. This is the task I have set myself in what little life I have left.”
“i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.117, Penguin

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