Checkering File Quotes & Sayings

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. — Roger Federer

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue! — Betty Wright

My phone, strolled downstairs for too-strong hospital — Jojo Moyes

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. — Linus Torvalds

But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God. — Neil L. Andersen

he inadvertently opened the door to a storeroom on the station and found it full of aircrew uniforms on hangers. He thought they must be replacement issue until he looked more closely and saw the brevets and stripes and ribbon medals and realized they had come off the bodies of the dead and injured. The empty uniforms would have provided a poetic image if he hadn't more or less relinquished poetry by then. — Kate Atkinson

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. — John Masefield

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted. — Vera Brittain

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation. — Robert Kiyosaki

I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man's float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality - talk, footsteps, slamming doors - which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream. — Donna Tartt

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. — Emily Dickinson