#shed

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#coach #crushed #devastated #had #i

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#brigade #finished #getting #go #go home

A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it. ↗

— David Kay

#allowed #been #believe #better #conclusion

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#also #become #becomes #corps #get

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#fads #great #great things #opinion #popular

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#bad #bad guys #get #good #good guys

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#committees #companies #greatest #greatest things #individual

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#any #being #concept #did #i

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#child #dad #embarrassed #fifth #finished

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #age #because #been #i