#lent

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#day #enough #gulf #gulf stream #itself

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' ↗

— Arthur Smith

#backwards #better #book #delusions #excellent

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away. ↗

— Bubba Smith

#back #i #just #normally #off

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#being #brings #different #different elements #elements

One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#always #around #been #cowboys #dallas

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#experience #got #just #killer #story

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#establish #excesses #far #first #first thing

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#becomes #discipline #fire #refining #talent

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title. ↗

— Layne Staley

#bad habits #habits #strengths #talent #title

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#been #burned #church #control #deal