#ten

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch. ↗

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it. ↗

— Venus Williams

#gain #huge #i #i can #know

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. ↗

— Venus Williams

#course #even #go #good #lose

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed. ↗

— Venus Williams

#did #get #good #i #lives

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#darkness #deepest #fear #frightens #inadequate

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. ↗

— Dontrelle Willis

#done #down #else #everybody #everybody else

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#caution #feels #guilt #innocence #more

I don't write books inadvertently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#i #inadvertently #write

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#apparent #defense #democracy #failures #forces

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. ↗