Spassky Applauds Quotes & Sayings

Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are. — Angelique Kidjo

I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think of me. He didn't know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not. In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. If he'd tried to apologize, or told me he love me, or even smiled. it would've felt fake. Like human dad, making some lame excuse for not being around. I could live with that. After all, I wasn't sure about him yet, either. — Rick Riordan

People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job. — Deval Patrick

Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2. — Candice Glover

We influence singing but never really songwriting. — Charles King

Moreover, the attempt by advocates of same-sex marriage to sever marriage from procreation is more chimerical than real.35 One would be hard-pressed to find an advocate of same-sex marriage who would accept the proposition that same-sex couples should be given the right to marry but that right does not entail a right to procreate and rear children. Were marriage and family truly severable, as the contractual view suggests, the one would not entail the other. However, advocates of same-sex marriage want it both ways. They want the contractual view of marriage plus the option of raising children. — Jean Bethke Elshtain

What's important is the time we spent working on it together. What's important is that Sam is the kind of guy who will trade notes on a sketchpad and teach me how to make tuna melts and drop everything to drive to a parking lot
when I need him and throw stones at my window to make sure I'm okay. — Hannah Harrington

We want to keep believing in our ideas even when the writing is on the wall. — Eric Ries

In that moment, she reminded me of a fairy princess. Or maybe a cracked-out Tinker Bell — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years. — John Hewson

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose. — Brennan Manning

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all. — Phoebe Cary

What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women. — Elaine A. Cannon