#era

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#always #damn #damned #generally #his

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!' ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#always #chances #could #enjoy #exaggerate

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#called #could #end #fear #fight

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one. ↗

— Joshua Homme

#breakfast #breakfast cereal #cereal #generally #really

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#capitalism #guilty #hopes #i #judging

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#challenging #confronted #considerable #corruption #cost

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#feared #federalist #founders #greatly #papers

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#core #free #free speech #freedom #imperative

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#feel #interactive #just #love #love is

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you? ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#because #doing #enough #frustrated #happy