Nerves Before A Game Quotes & Sayings

At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages, mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing the things that children used to do in their spare time. Let them, for example, make mud pies and call it modelling. But all the time there must be no faintest hint that they are inferior to the children who are at work. Whatever nonsense they are engaged in must have - I believe the English already use the phrase - "parity of esteem." An even more drastic scheme is not impossible. Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma - Beelzebub, what a useful word! - by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out 'A Cat Sat On A Mat'. — C.S. Lewis

I wish for adventure.
I wish to matter.
I wish for a home. — Sophie Jordan

I love you to the utter heart of me. You're my family, the joy of my soul. No one else ever for me love, because there is, and there only ever will be, only you. — Lily Morton

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul. — Deepak Chopra

Dear God, grant me the violence to crush mine enemies.
Dear God, give me mechanical lungs, for when I'm drowning. — Aaron W. Rockwell

Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It'll cost you everything. — Holly Black

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades. — Moshe Safdie

If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know. — Taylor Swift

No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people,
if you don't love yourself then it can never be enough. — Shannon Kaiser

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad. — Jonathan Safran Foer

But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer. — Sherman Alexie

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid. — L.A. Reid

Teammates ... were fine things. Piling onto the bus before the game, edgy with shared nerves, egging one another on with the genial, meaningless phrase C'mon, you guys!, collapsing back into the same seats for the ride home - the sense of striving in accord had been a sweet part of high school. Possibly the sweetest. But the camaraderie had not survived graduation, or even the off-seasons. Her teammates, passing in the school corridors in winter or spring, were downshifted to nodding acquaintances who had once been close, that past connection floating off like cotton candy on the tongue. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

The cab smelled like curry, cigarettes, and body odor, and the safety glass between me and the driver had cracks in it. — J.A. Konrath

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. — Nancy Friday