Doolan Fence Quotes & Sayings

For a person who strives for excellence, one's own satisfaction is often more valuable than others' appreciation. — Amey Hegde

My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy. — Taryn Manning

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens

I have a wonderful respect for old people. — Craig Kilborn

Every act has a consequence, Ellie. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time. — Jojo Moyes

People in America get up and go to their nine-to-five jobs every day and are oblivious to all these battles and wars and people dying every minute all over the world. This is life. This is how other countries live. This is a daily occurrence in some places. — Mitchell Zuckoff

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician. — Michael Scheuer

The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable. — Nick Kroll

There are no coming attractions. It's all here right now. The whole thing is being created right now. — Art Hochberg

That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot be confused. — Thomas Jefferson

All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know. — Eckhart Tolle

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue. — David Pietrusza

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby. — Helen Caldicott

I don't have anybody available to send up there to help you out. We're kind of up to our elbows in enemy sympathizers right now in Los Angeles. — Louis L'Amour

Sergeant Major Reinhold von Rumpel is forty-one years old, not so old that he cannot be promoted. He has moist red lips; pale, almost translucent cheeks like fillets of raw sole; and an instinct for correctness that rarely fails him. He has a wife who suffers his absences without complaint, and who arranges porcelain kittens by color, lightest to darkest, on two different shelves in their drawing room in Stuttgart. He also has two daughters whom he has not seen in nine months. The eldest, Veronika, is deeply earnest. Her letters to him include phrases like sacred resolve, proud accomplishments, and unparalleled in history. — Anthony Doerr