T.S. Mathews Quotes
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
What I love most about achieving whatever Ive achieved is that the Seattle Seahawks follow me on Twitter!
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.
When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.
Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.
Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings, and help them build reserves for a rainy day.
If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
Well, just another thing that Michael Cole brings to Monday Night Raw, he invited Laycool here, for whatever reason.
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.
It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.
Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.
Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
