Chlupy Quotes & Sayings

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game. — Michael Owen

It is all still new to me. I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me. — Marilynne Robinson

He knew her, he believed. He would teach her that she was not his possession, he would show her she was free, he would see her flash her wings. — A.S. Byatt

During the toughest challenges in my life I've come to most appreciate all Coach Wooden means to me. The things he would say - "Don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't whine, don't complain, don't make excuses; worry about the things you can control, and not the things you can't" - were endless. Yet there is an appropriate one for every situation. The real — John Wooden

What do you think we should do about Sampson?" I asked.
"I would have to say ... stop him," Sam said.
"How?" I asked her.
"Someone who is as powerful and as smart and crazy as he is should do it."
"Okay, but who?"
"Well ... you should."
"So you think I'm crazy?" I asked her. — Jennifer Priester

An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision. — Zhuangzi

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell. — Michael Jackson

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. — J.R.R. Tolkien

However difficult the objective, there is always a way of overcoming obstacles. He seeks out alternative paths, he sharpens his sword, he tries to fill his heart with the necessary determination to face the challenge.
But as he advances, the warrior realises that there are difficulties he had not reckoned with.
If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set of; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. — Paulo Coelho

I accept you, I tell him. All of you. The broken parts. The bent parts. The ones filled with shame. The cracks where hope seeps through. The little boy cowering in fear and the grown man still suffocating in his shadow. The demons that haunt. Your will to survive. And your spirit that fights. Every single part of you is what I love. What I accept. What I want to help heal. — K. Bromberg

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. — Augustus Hare