"It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams."

-- Paul D. Boyer

#Basketball Quotes #Team Quotes #School Quotes

“Vote early and vote often.”
“My objective is to satisfy [my] audience so they come back the next day.”
“You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.”

Source : "Gramm: We need more leadership, less whining" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2008.
“As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.”
“If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.”
“A relieved grin filled up Thorneâ€™s face. â€œWeâ€™re having another moment, arenâ€™t we?â€ â€œIf by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.”

Source : Marissa Meyer (2013). “Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)”, p.81, Penguin UK
“I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was asked why a killer sometimes doesn't even get indicted and a cattle thief can get ten years. The judge answered: "A lot of fellows ought to be shot, but we don't have any cows that need stealin".”
“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”

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