Roy Jones Jr Motivational Quotes & Sayings

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's — Thomas L. Friedman

What of men? I can't think of anything more banal. I have no doubt - no doubt whatsoever - that once it has obtained the means to do so, the species will wipe itself off the face of the earth. There is no mystery to it; it is our nature. Oh, one might delve into the particulars, but really, what can we say about the species that invented murder? What can we say? — Rick Yancey

It was different than all the rest because I say it was. I felt it was. — Katie Heaney

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand. — Artur Schnabel

You all laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same. — Unknown

When I see Steve Davis I see two letters ... C S ... Cue Sorceror. — Sid Waddell

You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time. — Matthew Sweet

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that. — Grant Show

The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected. — Elif Safak

Ellison's Theorem: the further right your position, the less telling your satire. A corollary of which is that you can't lampoon anywhere near where you stand, because you'd annihilate your own troops. — Harlan Ellison

They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates. — James M. Barrie

Many new funds may see these policies and procedures as something to be implemented after a fund has launched, but if the manager wants to attract institutional money, these must be in place from the start. — An Anonymous COO

So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light. — Sabaa Tahir

If
you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from
everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average
person and be exceptional. — Donald Trump

There is, then, a world immune from change. But I am not composed enough, standing on tiptoe on the verge of fire, still scorched by the hot breath, afraid of the door opening and the leap of the tiger, to make even one sentence. What I say is perpetually contradicted. Each time the door opens I am interrupted. I am not yet twenty-one. I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here in this room. — Virginia Woolf