#rendered

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#attendance #attention #battle #else #everybody

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? ↗

— James Madison

#before #branch #commerce #executed #fortunes

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#could #ride #surrendered #you

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. ↗

— John Podesta

#clinton #considered #his #i #i believe

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#me #pains #pathetic #physically #rendered

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#assembled #camera #entirely #group #had

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#been #circumstances #live #men #men and women

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

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#battles #beginning #british #came #century

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic