If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.


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I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look ...
RUTH OZEKI
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
BABE RUTH
Paris ain't much of a town.
BABE RUTH
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
BABE RUTH
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
BABE RUTH
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
BABE RUTH
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
BABE RUTH
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand...
BABE RUTH
Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that&#...
BABE RUTH
All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it...
BABE RUTH
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobac...
BABE RUTH
Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
BABE RUTH
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH
Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
BABE RUTH
Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
BABE RUTH
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if ...
BABE RUTH
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
RUTH OZEKI
There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can b...
RUTH REICHL
When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ...
RUTH NEGGA
You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl...
RUTH SMELTZER
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio...
RUTH ROSS
I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thi...
RUTH WILSON
I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry ble...
RUTH REICHL
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe...
RUTH RENDELL
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH
We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
RUTH ROSS
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
RUTH GRAHAM
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
RUTH BEECHICK
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH
To be somebody you must last.
RUTH GORDON
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
RUTH ROSS
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
RUTH HUBBARD
Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy...
RUTH MORGAN
Watch my dust.
BABE RUTH
In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
RUTH ROSS
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t...
RUTH GORDON
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre...
RUTH STOUT
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT
The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th...
RUTH GORDON
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the...
RUTH HUBBARD