"There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it."

-- John Newcombe

#Kids Quotes #Blood Quotes #Over You Quotes

“It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.”
“If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.”
“Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.”
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
“There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.”
“I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.”
“Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.”
“how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.”

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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