Benedek Tibor Quotes & Sayings

Life is the great teacher. — James Joyce

Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities. — Tibor Benedek

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. — Rudy Giuliani

If the fans think I'm a savior, that's fine. But they have to understand I'm one of 25 guys. I can't do it all. — Mark Prior

the truth from his ears, waxed strong. — Geraldine Brooks

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism. — Oscar Wilde

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Frankly, I'm getting a lot of great publicity. — Ann Coulter

Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world. — Norman Robert Campbell

I'll fix your toes, he said, as plainly as if he'd told me to do my homework. He dropped onto his knees in front of me, then stopped, tilting his head as if trying to figure out where to put himself. — C.L.Stone

If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything. — David Steindl-Rast

The sky doesn't set so much as break apart. The horizon is brick-coloured. The rest of the sky is streaked with shock-red tendrils. — Lauren Oliver

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice. — Benjamin Franklin

Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions. — A.H. Septimius

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself. — Tibor Benedek