#aid

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attributed #british #dinner #great #great success

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#championships #father #fun #gave #good

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#clubs #finished #football #football clubs #here

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. ↗

— William Blake

#incapacity #maid #old #old maid #prudence

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#age #ask #changed #dad #disappointed

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things. ↗

— Bob Dole

#certain #everything #help #hospital #i

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#freedom #hungry #i #said #starving

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

#college #created #encouragement #focus #graduate

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#average #batting #get #going #i

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#classy #cool #funny #good #i