#inning

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. ↗

— Russell Baker

#among #beginnings #death #dramatic #flourish

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#before #beginning #best #door #dressing

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#beginning #casting #dross #everything #fifteen

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#all things #beginning #content #i #insoluble

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position. ↗

— Lauren Alaina

#got #how #i #lose #love

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way. ↗

— Summer Altice

#friends #losing #meet #people #way

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#always #beginning #comedy #end #everything

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#going #got #important #life #losing

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there. ↗

— David Attenborough

#although #am #beginning #career #conveying

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#confidence #corrects #levity #school #sinning