Cal Ripken famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

  • Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

  • I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

  • Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

  • I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

  • You have to have a little faith in people.

  • There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.

  • If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

  • It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

  • McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.