"I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it."

-- Derek Jeter

#New York Quotes #Trying Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.”

Source : James Pollard Espy, Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (1857). “Message from the President of the United States: Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of July 24, 1854, the Fourth Meteorological Report of Prof. James P. Espy”, p.40
“The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.”
“It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves”
“God is a dark night to man in this life.”
“Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.”

Source : "Hill's alive with the sound of music" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2004.
“I want my teammates to know I have their backs.”
“All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.”

Source : "Fictional character: Constance MacKenzie". "Peyton Place", www.imdb.com. 1957.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Source : Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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