"No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?"

-- Sophocles

#Yield Quotes #Fighter Quotes #Glory Quotes

“As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.”
“I'm not afraid to make decisions. One of my friends said... we were talking about movies. It's really just a series of decisions you make. They said, "Tim Miller: frequently wrong, but never in doubt." I don't know that I'm making the right ones, but I'm not afraid to make them. That keeps the train moving forward.”
“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!”
“The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.”
“I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.”
“I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.”
“To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.”

Source : What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.
“A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.”

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