Sports Writing Prompts Quotes

#1. But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#2. The day I tell you I love you, is the day I gave my mind to the Devil.

Nashi Hoshimiya

#3. In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. James Reason reminds us, "Errors are largely unintentional. It is very difficult for management to control what people did not intend to do in the first place.

Robert Wachter

#5. It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.

Edward Zwick

#6. To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness.

Luis Marques

#7. Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Thomas Sowell

#8. I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.

Elliott Abrams

#9. My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.

Raymond E. Feist

#10. Haven't you noticed that by running away you end up in more trouble?" "Yes, but, you see, you can run away from that, too," said Rincewind. "That's the beauty of the system. Dead is only for once, but running away is for ever.

Terry Pratchett