#iv

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#lived #me #mother #place #real

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest! ↗

— Henry Home

#lives #loves #others #truly #who

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#doing #fighters #fighting #find #give

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#endeavor #envy #get #give #hard

The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#because #big #big guys #break #choose

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#because #before #best #challenging #courage

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in. ↗

— Joshua Homme

#dark #deliver #face #going #kick

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. ↗

— Horace

#been #birth #death #lived #unnoticed

I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I’ve ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk … I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I’d made you that way, that you belonged to me. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#dreamy-sighs #possessiveness #funny

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#burn #great #great men #leave #letters