#bout

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#bad #god #good #good things #happened

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#ball #breath #care #certain #choke

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ↗

— John James Audubon

#cared #cares #drawing #every #fishing

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#colour #different #eye #had #hair

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#any #ashamed #asked #best #david

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#any #beauty #beginning #correction #doing

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes. ↗

— Russell Baker

#causes #chain #feel #feel good #good

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#around #being #christians #compassionate #deal

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#bike #falling #get #never #off