"The world is made for people who are not cursed with self-awareness"
-- Annie Savoy , Bull Durham
"It's a good thing I ain't scairt to be lazy"
-- Augustus McCrae , Lonesome Dove
"Yankees in Georgia...how did they ever get in !"
-- Aunt Pitty-Pat , Gone With the Wind
"I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane."
-- Waylon Jennings
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
-- Author Unknown
contributed by vicki d
It is not the critic who counts,
not the one who points out how the strong man
stumbled
or how the doer of deeds might have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood: who
strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again; who knows
the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause;
who, if he wins,
knows the triumph of high achievement; and who,
if he fails, at least fails
while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who know neither
victory
nor defeat.
-- The Man in the Arena
Hard Pressed on my right.
My center is yielding.
Impossible to maneuver.
Situation excellent.
I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foche at the Battle of the Marne