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“If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“You never know when true greatness is lurking around the corner. Just make sure you don’t forget the ones who already lurked.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“The secret of basketball is that it’s not about basketball.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“When the Lakers held Jerry West Night in March 1971, Bill Russell paid his own way to be there and said during the ceremony, “Jerry, I once wrote that success is a journey, and that the greatest honor a man can have is the respect and friendship of his peers.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“When the Lakers held Jerry West Night in March 1971, Bill Russell paid his own way to be there and said during the ceremony, “Jerry, I once wrote that success is a journey, and that the greatest honor a man can have is the respect and friendship of his peers. You have that more than any man I know. Jerry, you are, in every sense of the word, truly a champion. If I could have one wish granted, it would be that you would always be happy.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. It is nowhere written that “the good” exists, that one must be honest or must not lie, since we are now upon the plane where there are only men. Dostoevsky once wrote: “If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Existentialism Is a Humanism
“ A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Bed of Roses
“You’re cruel to make me laugh right now,” Perry said, trying to keep as still as possible. Any sharp movement and his ribs felt like they’d crack.
“Sorry,” Aria said. She was smiling, her lower lip trapped between her teeth.
“Yeah… you look sorry.”
― Veronica Rossi, quote from Into the Still Blue
“Over the years I’ve come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we’ve done and more to do with who they are.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, quote from We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from See Me
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