#sit

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#athlete #author #been #biggest #making

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#blood #cells #chronic #i #leukemia

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#anything #believe #black #burden #could

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#about #am #bring #burden #continue

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#always #american #been #conflict #intelligence

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#composition #epic #him #his #may

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#fact #gestures #had #hours #i

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#confidential #dan #dan rather #defendant #happened

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#effort #i #i can #letter #love

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices