#tall

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#courage #form #humans #i #i think

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism. ↗

— John Bolton

#antithetical #call #career #fundamentally #help

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #belief #believe #business #business school

I stand before you a totally healthy person. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#before #healthy #healthy person #i #person

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#big #big city #boy #city #country

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all. ↗

— Sarah Brady

#buying #fugitive #guns #ill #mentally

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways. ↗

— Tom Brady

#different #different ways #everybody #manage #mentally

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#because #game #i #joke #knew

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#clause #confession #due #embodied #fairness