#sf

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#court #disaster #forces #gods #listening

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#each #every #guy #helping #hockey

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#better #character #dares #everyone #expose

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted. ↗

— Monty Hall

#felt #got #help #i #incumbent

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#been #city #come #commercials #company

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#deprive #different #everybody #going #great

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible. ↗

— John Harrison

#fans #impossible #probably #satisfying #vision

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. ↗

— Samuel Horsley

#curiosity #discover #ends #even #idiot

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States. ↗

— Michael Hayden

#been #detecting #inside #preventing #program

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#contemplating #happy #his #hit #indulging