Coach John Wooden Leadership Quotes & Sayings

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead. — Eric Clapton

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments. — Randal Cremer

Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire. — Margaret MacMillan

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds. — William Bligh

If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed. — Rene Descartes

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web. — George Papandreou

When I met him, he hadn't eaten for days, and lived in a rathole. But his rifle was clean and he had lots of ammunition. Whenever he heard shooting he ran towards it. If it was workers shooting at priests, state officials, capitalists, or cops, he'd empty his rifle as fast as he could fill it. But if two groups of workers ever shot at each other, he'd risk his life by standing between them and shouting, "When workers kill each other, there is no more reason to live! Kill me from both sides."
-- Luisa Nachalo — Sophia Nachalo

I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't. — Ruth Reichl

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony. — Richard Leakey