"The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Winning Quotes #Night Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.”

Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (1917). “Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century”
“A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.”
“We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.”
“Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! Itâ€™s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and â€” Oh, Hell â€” just gorgeously written!”
“Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.”

Source : Roger Angell (1991). “Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader”, Ivan R Dee
“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”
“Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.”
“Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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