John Forbes: You were voted the prettiest girl in the class; I was voted the boy most likely to succeed. Something should happen t...o people like that. Sue Forbes: Well, something did. They got married. John Forbes: Whatever happened to those two people who were going to build a boat and sail around the world? Sue Forbes: Well, I had a baby. I never did hear what happened to you. Oh, come on, wanderlust, you've got a family to support. John Forbes: No South America? Sue Forbes: Not today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sue Forbes: Old man routine getting you down? John Forbes: Oh, I don't know. Sometimes I get to feel like a wheel within a wh...eel within a wheel. Sue Forbes: You and fifty million others. John Forbes: I don't want to be like fifty million others. Sue Forbes: Oh, but you're John Forbes, average American, backbone of the country. John Forbes: I don't want to be an average American, backbone of the country. I want somebody else to be the backbone and hold me up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much no...nsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if ...anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old guard may grumble and occasionally sue, but in a society where Portnoy's Complaint is a record-breaking best- seller sexua...l permissiveness is no longer an issue. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve-ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.... Therefore this maxim out of love I teach: Achievement is command; ungained, beseech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are angels, wooing; Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.... That she beloved knows naught that knows not this: Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sue. Therefore this maxim out of love I teach: Achievement is command; ungained, beseech. Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear, Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fe...arless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die, if you make the attempt; we shall certainly die if you do not. The Americans have practised nothing but head-work these 200 years, and we have done their drudgery. And is it not high time for us to imitate their examples, and practise head-work too, and keep what we have got, and get what we can?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »