I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats
Recitation: by Male by Female
It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
Johann Most
LiveDayManEvery DayBeastPoor
I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.
Jerry Lewis
FeetNowTallFiveFourSix
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.
John Bolton
PeopleBlameNatural DisastersKorean
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.
Robert Pinsky
GoodArtChallengeSmartFunPoetry
I hate it when people call me a cage fighter. I'm a mixed martial artist. But people take one look at what we do, and they just start making assumptions.
Michael Bisping
HatePeopleMeStartArtistLook
I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.
John Ross Bowie
WifeFightMeThinkBetterTrue
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.
Amitava Kumar
ThinkComplicatedOwnEssayOp-Ed
Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.
Stephanie Coontz
MarriageRelationshipsProtectState
If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we'll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years - the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years - and it's always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they're the occupiers.
Trent Franks
TruthJusticeCulturePeopleMeNow
I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.
Rob Lowe
NatureTimeWifeNowTryFirst
I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.
Robert Winston
FearDaySchoolEvery DayTeachers
I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.
Mary Kay Andrews
CrazyChristmasOutWorkingBlocked
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