Selanne Hockey Quotes

#1. The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.

Joe Klein

#2. She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl!
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Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.

Henry James

#3. When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.

Teemu Selanne

#4. I've seen what commitment leads to, and it isn't pretty. Going in is the easy part. It's the endings that suck.

Sarah Dessen

#5. Pride is the great enemy of unity

Henry B. Eyring

#6. What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on?

Aravind Adiga

#7. I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

Zadie Smith

#8. Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition ...

Mitch McConnell

#9. If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.

Teemu Selanne

#10. Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.

Teemu Selanne

#11. As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.

F.C. Malby

#12. Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A.A. Milne

#13. The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

Daniel Goleman

#14. The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.

Edsger Dijkstra