#y

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years. ↗

— Monty Hall

#i #overnight #overnight success #success #took

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#know #people #private #something #them

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else. ↗

— Radclyffe Hall

#call #else #mad #much #nature

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

#appropriate #ask #brandy #call #current

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. ↗

— Robert Hall

#apt #authority #custom #enforced #favor

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. ↗

— Robert Hall

#beneficial #burden #care #economy #health

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. ↗

— Robert Hall

#length #only #seek #understanding #wisdom

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. ↗

— Robert Hall

#anxious #benefit #more #our #removed

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#before #beijing #dudes #facing #faster

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#because #become #else #face #focused