#ya

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. ↗

— Ross Perot

#about #achieve #foot #game #give

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#committed #crimes #free #horrific #miles

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. ↗

— River Phoenix

#control #enough #i #irrational #kids

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#avoided #becomes #between #constituting #differentiated

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee. ↗

— Jorge Posada

#could #forever #i #never #uniform

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#betrayal #build #deaths #edged #fight

But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president. ↗

— Laura Prepon

#annie #be the first #donna #first #hall

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#box #end #family #get #glass

Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer. ↗

— Jeff Probst

#episode #haven #i #into #like

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#going #golf #golf ball #hit #i