#ted

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#again #almost #been #career #failed

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#clamor #difficult #discriminate #heated #partisans

I want to learn your trickery and feel what it’s like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because it gets me where I want faster. I want to be like you, because you are blind; and now that I finally see, I don’t want to. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#any #felt #give #hope #i

Live today like it's your last night! ↗

— The Wanted

#the-wanted #inspirational

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #because #bring #down #give

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#asking #before #during #first #first phase

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#god #himself #inflicted #kill #life

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#expected #goals #impossible #inadequate #miracle

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen. ↗

— Bill Scott

#confrontation #constant #elected #elected officials #legislature