#d

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see. ↗

— Venus Williams

#about #ball #being #big #body

Home is the nicest word there is. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#nicest #word

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#characters #fine #i #i am #i do

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#begins #ends #friends #glory #had

Growing old is to be set free. It is a slow and long-simmering process that extracts you from what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in a boiling pot. You must accept the heat and the pain with serenity so that the full flavors of your life maybe released. ↗

— Samantha Sotto

#life

Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together. ↗

— Venus Williams

#along #athletes #because #brings #everyone

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#because #could #decided #different #field

A lot of faith is placed upon the airline itself. The FAA has never and will never have enough resources to completely monitor the airlines. ↗

— Wayne Williams

#airlines #completely #enough #faith #itself

Modeling is more important than the talking we do. ↗

— Wayne Williams

#modeling #more #talking #than

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#animals #cats #cats-being-needed #dogs #dogs-and-cats