Scorebook Quotes & Sayings

People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth. — Joe Haldeman

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side. — Alan Ryan

I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day. — Cool Papa Bell

I wanted to be everything for him, even in these dark moments when nothing made sense but the demands of our flesh. — Meredith Wild

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself. — Charlie Chaplin

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there. — Alberto Manguel

Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing. — Carol Gilligan

The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others. — William Graham Sumner

One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs. — Donald Trump

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy" — Sigmund Freud