#wit

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#flavor #life #predictable #were #without

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#closed #come #crazy #drive #ever

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#divine #earth #escape #evil #given

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#author #fiction #form #himself #humiliating

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#confused #get #home #landmarks #learn

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that. ↗

— John Robinson

#because #broken #came #chaos #different

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#back #either #happens #head-on #him

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#freedom #real #real freedom #without

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#audition #box #complete #days #did

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#best way #cycle #depressing #doing #end