quotes about not being good enough
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. ~Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did." ~J.K. Rowling, "The Missing Mirror," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)
Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. ~Bulstrode Whitlock
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. ~Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889
Kittens are angels with whiskers. ~Author Unknown
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. ~Jack Kerouac
It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner
The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. ~Hasidic Saying
Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bunuel
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. ~Sydney J. Harris
Most horror movies are certainly that. ~Brendan Francis
A man has often more trouble to digest food than to get it. ~Proverb
The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. ~Robert A. Heinlein
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown