Rings Quotes - Page 26

• If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.

  Eddie Alvarez

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Mma

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• Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Moving, Mma, Done

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• Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

  Forrest Griffin

  Fighting, Mma, Guy

  Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss (2009). “Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.

  Ian Mckellen

  Men, Years, Talking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Inside the ring Enson thinks outside the ring Enson's a pussy.

  Enson Inoue

  Thinking, Pussy

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• The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type … Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

  Brittany Maynard

  Beautiful, Goodbye, Teacher

  "Brittany Maynard Has Ended Her Life" by Lexi Petronis, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2014.

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• The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Ocean, Egypt

  "Battle for the Skies". Book by Michael Paterson, David & Charles, 2004.

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• I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Tree, Details

  Letter to Caroline Everett, June 24, 1957.

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• Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!

  William Allingham

  Kings, Spring, Yellow

  William Allingham (1855). “The music master, a love story, and two series of Day and night songs”, p.176

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• Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Wings, White

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Reading, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Limits, Wealth

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.20

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• Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

  O. Henry

  Golf, Moon, Pie

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.681, Delphi Classics

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• Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Wise, Heart

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.23

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• For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

  Francis Quarles

  Real, Grief, Men

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.11

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• Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
  And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,
  May they be strong to keep hate out
  And hold love in.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Strong, Wall, Laughter

  "Prayer for This House". Poem by Louis Untermeyer, www.poemhunter.com.

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• The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Giving, Insanity

  "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (pp. 122-123), 1906.

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• This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Work, Blessing, Men

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

  Conrad Aiken

  Horse, Heart, Night

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.

  Walter de La Mare

  Stars, Pain, Water

  Walter De La Mare (2007). “The Listeners and Other Poems”, p.19, Wildside Press LLC

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• Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Race, Names, Light

  Lydia Sigourney (2008). “Lydia Sigourney: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.149, Broadview Press

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• Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

  Stefan Zweig

  Destiny, Names, Skins

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• And another question was unfortunately not asked of Göring: 'The German people put faith in you even if they doubted Hitler because you were gentlemanly and more likable. What did you, Göring, do to justify this confidence? You have led a luxurious life and collected stolen art.

  Hermann Goring

  Art, People, Stolen

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• It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

  Channing Tatum

  Fighting, Use, Knows

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Believe, Fall, Black

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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