Havens Quotes - Page 11

• A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Good Day, Thinking

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• You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Nice, Character, Quality

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• I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Mirrors, Differences

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• We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

  Richard Bach

  Lynching, Choices, Design

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• My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.

  Anne Tyler

  Cousin, Mistake, New Beginnings

  Anne Tyler (2012). “The Beginner's Goodbye”, p.122, Random House

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• Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

  Clint Eastwood

  Retirement, Learning Something New, Age

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• I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

  Robert Cormier

  Uncles, Believe, Book

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• My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

  Jane Haddam

  Husband, Hate, Care

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• You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Sadness, Important

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• I haven't had the recognition I deserve, You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Deserve You, Careers

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• I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

  Fernando Botero

  Painting, Pleasure, Found

  "10 Things You Didn’t Know About Colombian Artist Fernando Botero" by Veronique de Miguel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Ill Will, Rooms, Good Will

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• For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Passion, Sleep

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• Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sex, Ideas, Needs

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• You've either got it or you haven't.

  Liam Gallagher

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• Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Player, Average

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• Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mind, World, Temples

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 10, 2011

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• Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

  Ken Blanchard

  Use, Action, Behavior

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• If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Making Choices

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

  Arne Duncan

  Recovery, Years, Reform

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• Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

  Clayton Christensen

  Christian, Children, Community

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• I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Twenties, Twenty Somethings

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• A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

  MC Hammer

  Song, Commitment, Thinking

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• I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Believe, Thinking, Iraq

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• I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

  Wilkie Collins

  Father, Garden, Hands

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.3350, Delphi Classics

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