Sportswomancourtney Quotes & Sayings

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. — Shelby Foote

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. — Benjamin Franklin

When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated ... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value. — Ezekiel Emanuel

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being. — Dan Barker

Clever men are good, but they are not the best. — Thomas Carlyle

He makes me go crazy inside all the way to the outside. — Cassie Mae

Feminists in Greenwich Village had begun bobbing their hair in 1912. In 1915, it was still radical. "The idea, it seems, came from Russia," the New York Times reported. "The intellectual women of that country were revolutionaries. For convenience in disguising themselves when the police trailed them, they cropped their hair."2 Holloway was something of a revolutionary, too. — Jill Lepore

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends — Fraser Young

Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent to vanquishing all foes. Where would I possibly find enough leather With which to cover the surface of the earth? But (wearing) leather just on the soles of my shoes Is equivalent to covering the earth with it. Likewise it is not possible for me To restrain the external course of things; But should I restrain this mind of mine What would be the need to restrain all else? — Shantideva

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. — Orson Scott Card

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else. — Lena Olin

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship. — Shiv Khera

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75) — Swami Satchidananda

I want to not do anything I've done before. That can come in any form. — Jeremy Renner