"I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure."

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Source : "A Look At The Cult Of Tim Tebow". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 28, 2011.

Howard Bryant

#Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.”
“And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.”
“Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.”
“Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.”
“Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”
“What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.”
“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2007). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC
“Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.”

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