Famous quotes containing the words stanley, cup, champions, challenge and/or era:
“Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.”
—Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944)
“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby “it.””
—Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)
“While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“People seek a challenge just as fire seeks to flame.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)