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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
Ed Bradley
Work
Hope
You
Work Hard
Better
Luck
Recognize
Be Prepared
More
Little
Might
Hard
Prepared
Harder
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
Eduardo Galeano
People
World
Result
Poverty
Abyss
Other
Between
Begin
Shorten
Should
Richness
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
Eduardo Galeano
Game
Dance
Beauty
Attracted
Well
Ball
Soccer
Capacity
Played
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
Eduardo Galeano
Sad
History
Joy
Beauty
Duty
Out
Torn
Sport
Voyage
Industry
Became
Got
Very
Blossoms
The History Of
Soccer
Roots
Play
A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow
Technology
Satellite
Conscience
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
Eric Schlosser
Faith
Good
Conversation
People
Fact
Look
Begins
Same
Where
Different
Interesting
Different People
Good Faith
Differently
Interpret
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
Erma Bombeck
Sometimes
Design
Flunked
Anatomy
Out
Human
Figure
Designers
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria
Today
Technology
Science
World
Immigration
Envy
Science And Technology
System
See
Generous
Developments
Economy
Massive
Policies
Because
American
American Economy
Funding
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne
Politics
World
No Friends
Friends
World Politics
Cards
The emotions, responsibilities - and the pain - of motherhood are unique to each of us with children. Ask any woman, and she will have her own story to tell.
Fiona Barton
Woman
Emotions
Will
Motherhood
Own
Pain
Tell
Responsibilities
She
Any
Children
Story
Ask
Us
Unique
Each
Her
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis
Learning
Words
Language
Think
Way
About
Only
Another
Another Way
Same
Same Things
Different
Things
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz
You
Winning
Lottery
Same
Whether
Figure
Play
Chance
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
Life
You
Real Life
Algebra
Assure
Remain
Firm
Real
Refusal
Stand
Your
Conscious
Thing
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
Beautiful
God
Fact
Most
Children
In Fact
Barely
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
Experience
Has-Been
Must
Take
Adult
Mere
Term
Issue
Been
Child
Infinitely
Preferable
Company
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz
Success
Me
Spoil
Insufferable
Always
Been
The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
Frank Butler
You
Joy
Giving
Indeed
Pleasure
Something
Get
Want
Rid
Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
Garet Garrett
Freedom
Free
Doubt
Must
Well
Itself
Where
The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.
Gene Weingarten
Mind
Confuse
Right Mind
Corporate
Distinctive
Would
Point
No-One
His
Mayor
Whole
Ever
Right
I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
George Herman
Life
Day
Great
My Life
Year
Give
Park
Could
New
Opening
Opening Day
Hit
If I Could
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will
Pursuit
Perfection
Improvement
Often
If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.
George Will
Immigration
Reward
Waves
Those
Presume
Would
Citizenship
Restricting
Laws
Had
Wrote
Surely
Provide
Huge
Anticipated
Amendment
Children
Wanted
Illegal
Reasonable
Who
Illegal Immigration
Imagined
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will
Good
Politicians
Mediocrity
Paradox
Constitute
Because
Accomplishes
Public
Public Good
Fascinate
Elite
There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.'
Glenn Greenwald
Me
Gay
You
Light
Rejection
Alienation
Way
Say
Ways
Kids
See
Take
Instead
Feel
Know
Accept
Judgmental
Judgments
Dealt
Impose
Imposing
Same
Going
Different
Them
Turn
Flaws
Your
Standards
Who
Different Ways
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.
Glenn Greenwald
Government
Terrorism
Benefits
Fear
Long
National
Accountability
State
Secrecy
Unlimited
Corporations
Claim
High
Security
Cash
Massive
Powers
Obvious
Operate
Private
Government Officials
Up
Surveillance
Persists
National Security
Officials
While
Suck
Many
Homeland
Homeland Security
Keeping
Amount
Levels
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
Grantland Rice
Kindness
World
Our
Thorns
Ours
Only
Blindness
Dearth
Flowers
Gather
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