Azzouz Block Quotes & Sayings

No American sport or activity has been so consistently and so passionately under attack as boxing, for "moral" as we'll as other reasons. And no American sport evokes so ambivalent a response in its defenders: when asked the familiar question "How can you watch ... ?" the boxing aficionado really has no answer. He can talk about boxing only with others like himself. — Joyce Carol Oates

Level with you child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. — Mary MacCracken

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out. — Victoria Beckham

We should all visit the sick. When they are in sorrow and suffering, it is a real help and benefit to have a friend come. Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill ... This has a greater effect than the remedy itself. You must always have this thought of love and affection when you visit the ailing and afflicted. — Abdu'l- Baha

He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you. — Joe Abercrombie

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all. — Byron White

Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up the next morning. — Fredrik Backman

This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans. — William Safire