Blanda Quotes

#1. Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
[Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Ovid

#2. I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda.

John Madden

#3. Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. When revelation comes write it down.

Richard G. Scott

#5. You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it ... I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

Hank Aaron

#6. Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Alice Walker

#7. You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

Ma Huateng

#8. The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.

Albert Camus

#9. I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it.

Marilou

#10. Chaos happens. Let's make better use of it.

Edward Tenner