“ I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball. ”
- Steve Nash- Copy
- 3.1K
“ In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ”
- Harper Lee- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. ”
- Zora Neale Hurston- Copy
- 1.3K
“ My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ”
- Louis Adamic- Copy
- 4K
“ Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right. ”
- Alex Chilton- Copy
- 969
“ There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ”
- Bern Williams- Copy
- 3.3K
“ In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them. ”
- William B. Given Jr.- Copy
- 206
“ A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. ”
- Gene Roddenberry- Copy
- 61
“ Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick. ”
- John Wayne- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Courage… is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. ”
- Harper Lee- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes I ever knew that tried it. ”
- Early ‘Red’ Blaik- Copy
- 3K
“ Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. ”
- Harper Lee- Copy
- 1.8K
“ People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 469
“ We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ”
- Wernher Von Braun- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 327
“ I reformed the Hot Licks, and in essence it was just adding girl singers for the first time in decades and hitting the road, playing out a lot with this six-piece band. The advice through the years had been to have girl singers with me again, so I did that. ”
- Dan Hicks- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! — this is the task of execution… ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. ”
- Harper Lee- Copy
- 1.3K
“ All my life I've been competing and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way, this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me, I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf. ”
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices… If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace… ”
- Samuel Adams- Copy
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