"For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding."

-- Jack Dempsey

#Hurt Quotes #New York Quotes #Character Quotes

“Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.”

Source : "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.
“And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.”
“A metaphor cannot be paraphrased”
“Who I am is the best I can be.”
“The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.”
“For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in whichâ€”by means of a sort of snapshotâ€”we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.”
“I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suÃ¨de purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

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