I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the…

“Is there something to be learned from fast tenderness that wanes just as fast as it forms?”

— Durga Chew-Bose

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

— Cyril Connolly

As far as the work in the ring, it's so much technique and spacing and timing, and that's what amateur wrestling is, too. So…

— Jake Hager

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk…

— Michael Phelps

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered…

— Lawrence Block

I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away…

— Jean Webster

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

— Sydney Banks

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

— Terry Pratchett

I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.

— Mark Suster

For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

— Ira Sachs

If people learned to understand, they would have no time to assume.

— Enhance Dreams

“Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself.”

— MacKenzie Taylor

“First the strangers came with argument and authority and gunpowder to back up both. And in the four hundred years Kino's people had learned…

— John Steinbeck

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

— Les Brown

“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just…

— George Orwell