"The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity."

-- Lenny Wilkens

#Dream Quotes #Mean Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?”
“The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.”
“... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY
“If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.”
“All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.”
“My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.”
“When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
“For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.”

Source : Richard Marcinko (1995). “Green Team”, Atria Books

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