De Varona Quotes

#1. At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.

George Takei

#2. A great champion deals with setback with a comeback,

Donna De Varona

#3. She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.

William Shakespeare

#5. Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

Donna De Varona

#6. Now was a time not to anger, but for survival. I would survive. I knew that was all I could do.

Betsy Cornwell

#7. The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

Donna De Varona

#8. I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

Sloane Crosley

#9. Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and lives by it? This was a sticky question because it would have to be Ranger ... but I suspected he occasionally killed people. Only bad people, of course, but still ...

Janet Evanovich

#10. Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#11. you must play by a new set of rules - because, increasingly, the tried-and-true tenets of success are just tried, not true.

Blake Mycoskie

#12. Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

Donna De Varona