#tho

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? ↗

— Johnny Unitas

#always #ball #confidence #could #had

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. ↗

— George Carlin

#done #enough #existence #fire #get

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#been #concerning #conditions #could #followed

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. ↗

— George Carlin

#executions #fewer #good #know #part

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together. ↗

— John Zorn

#beethoven #clear #i #influences #life

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#again #albums #because #first #give

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#big #come #excited #having #her

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#athlete #been #care #crazy #dancer

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#hard #hard work #how #less #much