"The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it."

-- Jimmy Connors

#Experience Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Advantage Quotes

“I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.”
“Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.”

Source : Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”
“I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.”
“I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.”

Source : Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation
“States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.”

Source : "State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era" by Richard Haass, www.taipeitimes.com. February 21, 2006.
“To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.”
“Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.216, Random House
“I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.”

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