#bled

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#actually #back #control #decisions #few

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#ball player #basketball #basketball player #car #car accident

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win. ↗

— LL Cool J

#continue #feel #get #hard #hard things

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#body #call #fat #goat #i

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#body #happiness #mind #pained #troubled

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#arrival #artisans #assembled #dangerous #discontent

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#choice #dark #failed #gambled #i

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled. ↗

— Imran Khan

#cricket #doubled #game #match #pressure

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#day #ever #me #untroubled

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#amusing #because #bit #constructed #copied