#ren

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better. ↗

— Mark Shields

#better #cause #individuals #more #numbers

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#bit #celebrity #course #days #different

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. ↗

— Florence Scovel Shinn

#achievement #apparent #apparent failure #been #before

Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#haiku #life #middle-age #age

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#become #children #different #different perspective #ironic

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#ceased #elsewhere #exist #french #had

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#been #better #does #fertile #genius

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it. ↗

— Joel Silver

#action #action films #always #continue #differently

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#got #great #i #just #parents

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#difference #go #i #know #leave