After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Author: Mickey Mantle

Author: Mickey Mantle

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Death is the destiny.

Author: Unknown
Quote #503320

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in

Author: Albert Camus
Quote #119920

The Show Must Go On!

Author: Queen
Quote #295753

Stories are light.

Author: Kate DiCamillo
Quote #211642

I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my st

Author: Flannery O'Connor
Quote #441007

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink

Author: Roxane Gay
Quote #111671

Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and

Author: Ernst Haeckel
Quote #356909

The mist enveloped her form. She was lifted into it, then instantly dropped. Swiftly, the mist retre

Author: A.E. van Vogt
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She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered

Author: Jasper Fforde
Quote #240256

...her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushi

Author: D.B. Reynolds
Quote #293134

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Author: Stephen King
Quote #80540

My eyes constantly seekthe rainbow of my dreamsand I sometimes fail to be grateful for raindropsthat

Author: Vijaya Gowrisankar
Quote #96755

And half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves ha

Author: Ani DiFranco
Quote #415970

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Quote #109861

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is oft

Author: Christopher Hitchens
Quote #87392

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo

Author: Cesare Pavese
Quote #63745

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that

Author: Craig Ferguson
Quote #487180

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls b

Author: Marcel Proust
Quote #427204

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Author: Epictetus
Quote #138819

Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a l

Author: Michelle Tea
Quote #96787

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Author: Julia Cameron
Quote #86406

Don’t use your energy to hate on anyone

Author: Unknown
Quote #41008

Obedience and submission requires faith

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #439773

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Author: Roddy Doyle
Quote #280768

People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.

Author: Dan Groat
Quote #411765

I take all knowledge to be my province.

Author: Sir Francis Bacon
Quote #279381

Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silenc

Author: Steven Magee
Quote #391103

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

Author: Donna Lynn Hope
Quote #108432

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct

Author: Simon Schama
Quote #270805

The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.

Author: Yukito Kishiro
Quote #20021

The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #503384

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is r

Author: Peter Marshall
Quote #238842

You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Eit

Author: Marguerite Duras
Quote #438968

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

Author: Elon Musk
Quote #166859

What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote #141095

The book is the most technologically advanced invention in the history of humankind.

Author: Kambiz Mostofizadeh
Quote #46446

The clothes have no emperor.

Author: Stewart Elliott Guthrie
Quote #351967

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

Author: Clara Winter
Quote #495925

I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially

Author: Jane Wiedlin
Quote #201871

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Author: Ruth Gordo
Quote #274334

For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can cho

Author: Sheena Iyengar
Quote #277835

Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

Author: Brandon Sanderson
Quote #8882

I don't mind if you forget me.Having learned my lesson,I never left an impression on anyone.

Author: Morrissey
Quote #26180

Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing.

Author: Vijay Kedia
Quote #84037

The great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page

Author: Peter Ackroyd
Quote #442453

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication techn

Author: Alan Lightman
Quote #80775

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way a

Author: Melody Carlson
Quote #392978

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men

Author: Unknown
Quote #498835

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tende

Author: Paula Cole
Quote #79183

Have you had your own, personal earthquake? Here is what it feels like. Your insides feel like they

Author: Kirthi Jayakumar
Quote #500678

Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we sh

Author: Unknown
Quote #342847

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is heal

Author: Rollo May
Quote #63113

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing g

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Quote #239782

I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on.

Author: Lois Greiman
Quote #408119

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

Author: Cicero
Quote #497667

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Author: Carl Sandburg
Quote #157485

I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to o

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote #181566

Death swallows death.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
Quote #187009

And the hunger that once chewed at them like a mean dog now seems more like an annoying houseguest w

Author: Dave Boling
Quote #105915

You are the light in the midst of darkness.

Author: Unknown
Quote #351696

Cats like sleeping and resting on intersections. There are many stories about magical animals but re

Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Quote #502972

I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my weddi

Author: Ben Silbermann
Quote #207488

I’ve heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.The god of the dead.

Author: Kate Rooper
Quote #107787

If everyone fights with the power of their love, there will be happiness, not the destruction or war

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #169380

The Lord God is our great helper.

Author: Unknown
Quote #380329

Molly. I have an opportunity for you.”“An opportunity?” I repeated, without enthusiasm. Oh, good. Ne

Author: Frankie Bow
Quote #29093

Happiness is health

Author: Unknown
Quote #57287

There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

Author: Sadie Jones
Quote #341068

The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to

Author: W.E.B. Du Bois
Quote #442439

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

Author: John Cheever
Quote #175605

To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and t

Author: Pearl Zhu
Quote #321854

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader

Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quote #436111

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable

Author: Stephen Mangan
Quote #183675

Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in f

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
Quote #45500

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Author: Donald Barthelme
Quote #289448

So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.

Author: Lloyd C. Douglas
Quote #408789

Let us live while we are alive!

Author: Johann von Goethe
Quote #257957

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacrednes

Author: Anne Lamott
Quote #156188

Dare to make wishes. The fulfillment of your wishes is possible.

Author: Unknown
Quote #450412

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me intereste

Author: Laura Carmichael
Quote #276352

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something n

Author: Dennis Vickers
Quote #179450

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Author: Garrison Keillor
Quote #298538

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leav

Author: Veronica Roth
Quote #424120

Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’

Author: James Baldwin
Quote #267912

Learn, believe and achieve!

Author: Sunny Basra
Quote #440924

I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink,

Author: Zach Cregger
Quote #410491

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Author: A. E. Housman
Quote #361035

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbr

Author: Robin Hobb
Quote #450734

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Author: Khalil Gibran
Quote #397393

Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you whe

Author: Barbara Hambly
Quote #169628

Everybody is Beautiful and Unique in Their Own Special Way, Beauty goes Beyond the Outer Appearance.

Author: Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Quote #279513

You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

Author: Susan Andersen
Quote #427057

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Author: Jane Austen
Quote #85266

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics bu

Author: Kenneth Cain
Quote #477081

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred

Author: A. J. Liebling
Quote #15469

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of a

Author: Alberto Caeiro
Quote #477886

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal

Author: Matthew Scully
Quote #17752

Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is t

Author: Dragos Bratasanu
Quote #26929

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Author: Ayn Rand