quotes about Rigged

“If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.”

“the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.186, Macmillan

“seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space”

“You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.”

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.”

“Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment...”

“God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.”

“The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.”

“I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That’s empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.”

Source : Interview with Allie Tollaksen, ndsmcobserver.com. January 22, 2014.

“It's O.K. to accept good fortune.”