“You count the years until you get a varsity jersey, then you're a hero, an idol, a cocky bastard because in this town you can do no wrong. You win and win and you're the king of your own little world, then poof, it's gone. You play your last game and everybody cries. You can't believe it's over. Then another team comes right behind you and you're forgotten.”
― John Grisham, quote from Bleachers
“I'm here to tell you, separate was never equal.”
― John Grisham, quote from Bleachers
“We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.”
― John Grisham, quote from Bleachers
“mentally than the other guy, and you’re tougher mentally because”
― John Grisham, quote from Bleachers
“miss him?” Another slow sip. “How can you not miss Rake once you’ve played for him? I see his face every day. I hear his voice. I can smell him sweating. I can feel him hitting me, with no pads on. I can imitate his growl, his grumbling, his bitching. I remember his stories, his speeches, his lessons. I remember all forty plays and all thirty-eight games when I wore the jersey. My father died four years ago and I loved him dearly, but, and this is hard to say, he had less influence on me than Eddie Rake.”
― John Grisham, quote from Bleachers
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“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“اننا فخورون باننا لسنا خاضعين لاية قوة خارجية, واننا احرار في التعبير عن افكارنا ومشاعرنا ونحن نأخذ بثقة ان هذه الحرية تكاد تضمن على نحو تلقائي آلي فرديتنا. وعلى اية حال, فان حق التعبير عن افكارنا لا يعني شيئا الا اذا كان قادرين على ان تكون لنا افكار من انفسنا, ان التحرر من السلطة الخارجية هو مكسب اخير اذا ما كانت الظروف السيكولوجية الباطنية هي بشكل يمكننا من تأسيس تفرديتنا. فهل نحن حققنا ذلك الهدف او اننا على الاقل نقترب منه ؟”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“I can’t be your spark if I can’t feel yours, so don’t you dare burn out on me.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“Father of all--God!--what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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