#wit

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#despair #i #lest #lose #must

The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#am #campaign #concerned #country #his

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. ↗

— William Temple

#first #fourth #good #good sense #humor

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#active #any #around #background #cricket

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#ever #everywhere #go #happier #leaving

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. ↗

— Randall Terry

#doing #everyone #eyes #god #law

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#entire #entire life #gift #great #great gift

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#audience #ever #extremely #foolish #outwit

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#any #being #concern #critics #cut

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating