But414350 Quotes & Sayings

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey. — Gene Tunney

At a quarter to twelve on that Friday, Patty Jefferson died. In the final moments, Jefferson's sister Martha Carr had to help the grieving husband from his wife's bedside.13 He was, his daughter recalled, "in a state of insensibility" when Mrs. Carr "with great difficulty, got him into the library, where he fainted" - and not for a brief moment. Jefferson "remained so long insensible that they feared he would never revive." When he did come to, he was incoherent with grief, and perhaps surrendered to rage. There is a hint that he lost all control in the calamity of Patty's death. According to his daughter Patsy, "The scene that followed I did not witness" - presumably "the scene" unfolded in the library when he revived - "but the violence of his emotion, when, almost by stealth, I entered his room by night, to this day I dare not describe to myself."14 (Patsy was writing half a century later.) A — Jon Meacham

The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page ... that's asking a lot of people. — Nancy Gibbs

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you. — Ellis Peters

But I want to give in to it sometimes — Melina Marchetta

Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement ... recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home. — Dennis Nurkse

I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place. — Deacon Jones

Your love for me should be a passionate desire to pray for me daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way. — Jane Hamilton