#per

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#away #ball player #chance #difficulty #doing

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#down #guess #had #i #life

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#away #being #deeper #football #how

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#am #care #characters #could #development

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#because #between #chosen #covenant #different

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#being #bishop #both #celebrate #challenge

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see. ↗

— Venus Williams

#about #ball #being #big #body

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person. ↗

— Connie Willis

#artist #astaire #because #effortless #fred

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#deepest #impulses #intellectually #me #necessary

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#city #distinction #present #ten #thousand