The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. Paul Auster
The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.Sasha Cohen
The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time. Joshua Ferris
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them. Cal Ripken Jr
The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that. Oscar Robertson
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight. Mike Tyson
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott
The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them. Kobe Bryant
The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.Kobe Bryant
The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening. Jackie Joyner Kersee
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur. Tracy Austin
The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong. Margaret Atwood
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.Karl Heinrich Marx
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. Tammy Bruce
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to. Harlan Coben
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.Thomas Alva Edison
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. Ralph Waldo Emerson