"You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad."

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Toni Morrison

#Confusion Quotes #Long Quotes #Devil Quotes

“Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.”
“The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.”

Source : Derek Jeter (2010). “The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.4, Broadway Books
“We can call it Isratine.”
“I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.”
“I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers
“War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.”
“He is a legend and he's going to be remembered for a long time. Just to play alongside him and learn from him has been an absolute pleasure. I think he is a footballer's footballer; he has been at this level for so long. As long as he is part of us we always feel we have a chance. We appreciate the way he goes about his business. I have never met a character like Scholesy, certainly not someone who is that good.”
“We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)”

Source : Erich Segal (2013). “Doctors”, p.9, Hachette UK

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