Ordinary Hazards Quotes & Sayings

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training. — Miyamoto Musashi

I know the president is quick. I have friends who played with him during the campaign; they say he's very good. I told the president that whenever the next pickup game is, I'll get on the plane to Washington - but sometimes they play so early in the morning. — Dikembe Mutombo

I will be judged as a human being by what readers find here. There are hazards to openness, but they seem minor compared with the possibility that some readers may find comfort, perhaps even inspiration, from a close examination of how an ordinary person, with strengths and weaknesses like anyone else, has managed an extraordinary journey. — Sonia Sotomayor

The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts - because they have to be tough to protect it. — DMX

It's loud inside my head, with those words I want to say to you. — Jayson Engay

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? ... Isn't it bad public policy? ... No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May. — Russell Baker

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena. — H.G.Wells

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? — Neil Gaiman

You might be a redneck if every electrical outlet in your house is a fire hazard. — Jeff Foxworthy

I envisaged a woman of the late nineteenth century marrying into this milieu, finding it unendurable and fleeing back with her child to the more ordinary hazards of London: of that child, given at her christening the ancient Roman name for the island, Sarnia, but reared in ignorance of her paternal background, discovering, after her mother's death, that she was an heiress, and being bidden back to claim her patrimony. Skulduggery followed naturally.
(On the writing of SARNIA) — Hilary Ford

Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.
Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world? — Kimberly Pauley

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

It wasn't a question. It had never been an option. It was something set into motion the day the universe was created, and thousands of years later, there we were. We'd found each other. I was hers, she was mine, we were each other's. — Nicole Williams

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end. — Jon Krakauer

Every story is a scorcher and has the ultimate alpha-male character. - AngelinaT — Scarlett Avery