The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.Kareem Abdul Jabbar
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. Ernest Hemingway
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. Benjamin Disraeli
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.Karl Heinrich Marx
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. Robertson Davies
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye. Tim Ferriss
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now. Carmen Agra Deedy
There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big Cam Newton
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation. Daniel Everett
There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special. Fuzzy Zoeller
There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.Stan Musial
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game. John Starks
There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive. Dick Williams
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth. Donald Miller
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. David Brin
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony. Michael Eric Dyson
There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own. Phil Niekro
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.Christopher Columbus
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them. Eric Carle