#r

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#give #hopefully #i #luck #night

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ↗

— Margaret Young

#first #must #need #order #really

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#humor #life #pleasure #death

The last few years have been pretty hectic. ↗

— Frank Langella

#few #hectic #last #pretty #years

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#feel #got #healthy #i #i feel

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish. ↗

— Brian Lamb

#fetish #i #record

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#companions #days #faces #familiar #gone

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#day #every #man #new #year

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#animal #better #gaming #get #man

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#i #like #old #possible #slowly