Quotes About Challenges

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

The great Tolstoy wrote of families. He said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

What was costly was not the shot but coming back without good pictures to choose from. The light was perfect, orange gray, casting long shadows. The city seemed to reveal more the darker it got.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

they would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

If women are trapped by the whore/Madonna complex, men are equally trapped by this warrior/minstrel complex. What's more, while a man is expected to be modern, that is, to support feminism in all its particulars, to see and treat women as equals in every respect, he is on the other hand often still expected to be traditional at the same time, to treat a lady like a lady, to lead the way and pick up the check.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

I do know this. It's the things we run from that hurt us the most." –Brad Sturdevant

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

Some people grow up at 15, some at 38. It is more painful at 38.

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Change is a difficult task, a dying, a dreaming, an awakening.

What if the last seventy-five years has been the exception rather than the rule? What if the last three-quarters of a century has lulled us into believing that the next few decades will continue on the same path? What if we have forgotten the lessons of history from a century ago? In the first four decades of the twentieth century, we faced World War I, then the deadly Spanish flu of 1918–19, then deglobalization and bouts of hyperinflation, and then the Great Depression.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

Alles ist gut, nur nicht überall; nur nicht immer, nur nicht für alle.

i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up

favorite Norwegian novel, Giants in the Earth.

You cannot enjoy my sweetness and refuse to enjoy my bitterness when arise.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.