Whiffed Urban Quotes & Sayings

There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get. — Kim Gruenenfelder

Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw. — Noelle Scaggs

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors. — Simon Sinek

You may be sure that we are as well aware as you of the difficulty of contending against your power and fortune, unless the terms be equal. But we trust that the gods may grant us fortune as good as yours, since we are just men fighting against unjust, and that what we want in power will be made up by the alliance of the Lacedaemonians, who are bound, if only for very shame, to come to the aid of their kindred. Our confidence, therefore, after all is not so utterly irrational.
— Thucydides

God, why didn't you make us all dogs? — Anne Rice

Love is far better to know, even if it slips from your grasp or doesn't bear fruit like you'd hoped. People who say they regret love, true love, are just bitter liar. — Elise Kova

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. — Timothy Leary

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. — Jodi Rell

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once. — Drew Houston

I became conflicted in my late teens. — Daniel Day-Lewis

A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a fat man, aproned and puffing, emerged from a restaurant and whiffed the cold air and gazed yearningly at the sky. As though even the dreams were up there, much too far away. — David Goodis

Michael Schumacher deserved the driver's championship. To be honest, I didn't want to keep my record as the last Ferrari world champion; it's never done me any good! — Jody Scheckter

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars. — Steve Earle