#all

Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were running, jumping, leaping, we were slouched behind typewriters, smoking and drinking, pretending to some mystic communion with men we didn't really know or like. Men from ghettos we didn't dare visit, or rural farms we passed at sixty miles an hour. Loving what they did on the field, we could forget how superior we felt towards them the rest of the time. By cheering them on we proved we had nothing to do with the injustices that kept their lives separate from ours. There's nothing sordid or false about the Boys of Summer. Only our memories smell like sweaty jockstraps. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#regret #love

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#small-towns #men

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#embodiment #sauron #terrible #men

When things are exceptionally hard, there is a reason why they’re hard; and it’s usually because they’re not meant to be and we’re not listening. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham SAVVY Ingredients for Success

#life-challenges #listening-to-inner-self #listening-to-your-heart #motivational-quotes #inspirational

If you've delayed achieving your goals, have you ever asked yourself, "What's stopping you? ↗

— Elizabeth Parker

#inspirational #motivational #quotes #home

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#begs #both #cook #dating #disasters

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#george #late #marshall #me #most

We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#baby #call #could #dave #enough

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#cromwell #military #men

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs. ↗

— Tony Romo

#back #challenge #competitor #especially #get