#ld

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. ↗

— George Eliot

#had #harold #him #ideas #impressions

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#could #fighters #good #greatest #hand

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#guys #hard #just #land #many

Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#breathing #caused #got #growing #growing up

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#back up #because #been #come #could

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#back #dimensions #go #mind #never

What marvelous things happen when men and women walk with faith in obedience to that which is required of them! I recall reading the story of Commander William Robert Anderson, the naval officer who took the submarine Nautilus beneath the polar ice from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, a daring and dangerous feat. It recounted a number of other exploits of similar danger and concluded with a statement that the commander carried in his wallet a tattered card that had on it these words: “I believe God will always make a way where there is no way.” I too believe that God will always make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk in obedience to the commandments of God, if we will follow the counsel of the priesthood, he will open a way even where there appears to be no way. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#lds #faith

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#executive #hell #legislature #men #office

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#audience #boxers #gain #general #happening