Clendenning Sparta Quotes & Sayings

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there. — J. J. Watt

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love. — Confucius

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn't reject those of the eminent. To which they retorted that the surest way of playing the game of the red robes was to leave to them the monopoly of the death penalty. My reply to this was that if you gave in once, there was no reason for not continuing to give in. It seems to me that history has borne me out; today there's a sort of competition who will kill the most. They're all mad over murder and they couldn't stop killing men even if they wanted to. — Albert Camus

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing. — Henri Matisse

So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook career. You feel so blessed to have been able to compete this long. — Cal Ripken Jr.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said. — Robert Fisk

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating
after all, they are women
but they cannot be curmudgeons. — Cleveland Amory

We get more oil from Canada than any country. — Paul Cellucci

He declared he never stepped in front of the footlights without first saying to himself over and over: "I love my audience. I love my audience. — Dale Carnegie

Fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. What bank? How can I tell? I only believe that you have long life before you. I know that you take all my words now for a set speech prepared beforehand, but maybe you will remember them after. They may be of use some time. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet. — Melvin B. Tolson

Or maybe ... their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead. — Jordan Sonnenblick