#wit

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#conquer #fear #fearlessly #learn #look

You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe. ↗

— Charles Durning

#about #audience #believe #create #fearless

I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!' ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#always #appearance #being #being there #chose

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#broadcasting #espn #i #missing #race

It's more fun to watch without joining in. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#joining #more #watch #without

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#even #hath #him #himself #power

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#chance #change #does #fact #flood

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#always #any #comes #even #finger

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#because #deeply #felt #gave #go

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. ↗

— David Blunkett

#amnesty #any #available #because #cards