#tory

To be prepared is half the victory. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#half #prepared #victory

Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#away #because #chance #couple #gave

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#author #composition #double #fact #hand

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#bring #does #history #hour #human

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . . ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #contradictory #experience #eye #hence

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#before #defeat #had #never #victory

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#defeat #difficult #less #more #problems

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#breath #catch #hard #history #moment

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #people #play #refine #respond