Mets Quotes - Page 27

• More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

  James McGreevey

  Children, Kids, Shoes

  4 Copy quote

• I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

  Tom Glazer

  Depression, Senior, Jobs

  4 Copy quote

• I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

  Steven Chu

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  7 Copy quote

• If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

  Eric Alterman

  Baseball, Team, Years

  7 Copy quote

• The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Motivational, Leadership, Iron

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

  Boethius

  Stars, Heart, Order

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.58, Harvard University Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’ve only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn’t have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That’s so rare. So we have to look at the reality and not romanticize it. We have to be clear that you have the right to sell your own body but nobody has the right to sell anybody else’s body. No one has that right.

  Gloria Steinem

  Reality, Pimp, Body

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Black, Discrimination

  8 Copy quote

• I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Thinking, Philosopher

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

  George Orwell

  Men, Thinking, Doctors

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Thank You, Sweet, Done

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

  Will Durant

  Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Progressive Society

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.

  Karl Marx

  Hate, Struggle, Men

  8 Copy quote

• I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world, a world in which human beings can live in peace, in freedom, and with their basic needs adequately met.

  Jimmy Carter

  Stress, Rights, Creating

  Carter, Jimmy (1979). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978”, p.2163, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

  Kurt Cobain

  Adages, Ifs

  "Song: "Territorial Pissings" ("Nevermind")". 1991.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

  Poul Anderson

  Destiny, Two, Bravery

  Poul Anderson (2015). “The Stars Are Also Fire”, p.10, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Simple, Office, Stories

  5 Copy quote

• I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

  Mike Tyson

  Believe, Home, Names

  5 Copy quote

• Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Palin

  4 Copy quote

• I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Business, Technology

  "CNBC's Larry Kudlow Speaks With California Gubernatorial Candidates Republican Meg Whitman & Democrat Jerry Brown Tonight on CNBC's 'The Kudlow Report'". www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.

  Robert Leckie

  Men, Squares, Soul

  "Fictional character: Robert Leckie". "The Pacific", 2010.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are so many people I wish I could have met.

  Karolina Kurkova

  People, Wish

  4 Copy quote

• Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Loss, Rights

  Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Struggle, Government

  Nelson Mandela (1990). “One nation, one country”

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

  Kim Wilde

  Husband, Musical, West

  4 Copy quote