#port

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

O futuro de Portugal - que não calculo, mas sei - está escrito já, para quem saiba lê-lo, nas trovas de Bandarra, e também nas quadras de Nostradamus. Esse futuro é sermos tudo. Quem, que seja português, pode viver a estreiteza de uma só personalidade, de uma só nação, de uma só fé? ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#portugal #inspirational

Women and gay guys always get stuck with that image that they couldn’t possibly be interested in the game itself—it had to be the guys. I mean sure it’s a fringe benefit but when the game is on the last thing you’re thinking about is the bodies of the men. You’re concentrating on that red leather oval ball and if it will make it between the triad of poles that will either signify glory or failure. ↗

— Sean Kennedy

#women-sport-fans #men

If you don’t practice you don’t deserve to win. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#inspirational

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ↗

— Samuel Jackson

#claret #drink #men #port #men

Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#life #life-lessons #sports #sportsmanship #inspirational

There are no second chances. You see, everyday is a chance, and it’s never got to be always just a second one. ↗

— Rea Erika Paraz Ebate

#inspirational #inspiring-quotes #opportunity #inspirational

Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #opportunity #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace. ↗

— Rick Danko

#directly #go #greenpeace #portion #sales

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth. ↗

— Judd Rose

#critical time #know #many #need #people