Risked Being Pulled Quotes & Sayings

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs. — Connie Stevens

I wanted to come home, but I was embarrassed. There are things worse than embarrassment like my little sister thinking I didn't care about her. You needed me and I'd been dying without you. Turns out, I'm not likable enough to make friends who aren't my sister. — Bijou Hunter

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see. — Horace

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something. — Frank Deford

A real tank now costs about a million dollars, while a hallucinated one amounts to less than one-hundredth of a cent per person, or centispecter per spectator. A destroyer costs a dime. Today you could fit the whole arsenal of the United States inside a single truck. — Stanislaw Lem

The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil. — Thomas Merton

Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely. Long — Sheryl Sandberg

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part. — Orison Swett Marden

All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty ... Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong. — Prince William

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. — Eddie Vedder