Habighorst Boxing Quotes & Sayings

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad. — Benmont Tench

Keep your sense of humor. Stay funny. — Frederick Lenz

I have nothing but duct-taped syntax to offer them
noise of jury-rigged verse, of entire days burned
by the focus of a foreman's glare, the labored breath
of an exhausted ride home
while she sings in a tiara and cape
to tuxedoed men and bespangled women.
Yet the world sounds most honest to me
when its timing chain is slightly off.
How it revs, how it almost sputters out
on any given evening after a long day of work. — B.J. Ward

Youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy! — Jane Welsh Carlyle

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem. — Billy Corgan

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice. — Eileen Chang

Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation. — Hannah Whitall Smith

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president. — A. N. Wilson

The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service. — Jonathan Tisch

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc. — Ricky Gervais

You're never too old to grow up. — Shirley Conran

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. — Mickey Mantle

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want. — Robert Darnton

We long for experiences "of profound connection with others," he writes, "of deep understanding of natural phenomena, of love, of being profoundly moved by music or tragedy, or doing something new and innovative." Just as important, we long for esteem and pride, "a self that happiness is a fitting response to." Implicit in Nozick's experiment is the idea that happiness should be a by-product, not a goal. Many of the ancient Greeks believed the same. To Aristotle, eudaimonia (roughly translated as "flourishing") meant doing something productive. Happiness could only be achieved through exploiting our strengths and our potential. To be happy, one must do, not just feel. — Jennifer Senior