Quotes of John Leonard

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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

- John Leonard

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“ How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ He made me feel the infinite number of feelings, In which I lost myself. ”

- Luffina Lourduraj

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ Let me take you from Miss to Mrs ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ Her footprints are leaving green marks on the desert heart of mine ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ 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

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Og Mandino

“ Sometimes we may feel disheartened and demoralized but we must keep faith in ourselves. We may be going through a lot of ups and downs in our life. But we must realise that growth begins from chaos! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett