Quotes of George Plimpton

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At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

- George Plimpton

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“ I miss everything about you Can’t believe that I still want you And after all the things we’ve been through. ”

- Colbie Caillat

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially ”

- Veronica Roth

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran