#port

Tomorrow is another opportunity to improve yourself ↗

— Scott A. Reighard

#inspiration #opportunity-society #inspirational

I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don’t act when given the opportunity. ↗

— Shellie M. Saunders

#inspirational #opportunity #inspirational

A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#intelligence #portugal #portuguese #tax #unconsciousness

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#apparently #carried #dealing #description #endless

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored.  Writing is a jealous and needy lover. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#creativity #inopportunity #jealousy #need #richelle

The Iraqi elections were an important first step. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#first #first step #important #iraqi #step

football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#football #sports #life

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#auden-west #bikes #boys #capable-of-more #debutante

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football. ↗

— Ian Mortimer

#history #medieval-life #sport #life