#longed

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#either #holiday #looked #may #prolonged

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#bag #base #baseman #belonged #business

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be. ↗

— Mark Hamill

#become #film #having #just #just one

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#appear #belonged #category #different #genius

Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life. ↗

— Gil Hodges

#children #dodgers #filled #good #good times

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. ↗

— David Remnick

#almost #been #between #crisis #editor

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#before #behind #changes #die #enter

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#belonged #invincible #invisible #known #peace

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere. ↗

— Jack Dee

#belonged #comics #common #depression #during

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

#feel #girl #i #like #little