Colavas Quotes & Sayings

Gambling is a fascinating sport. When you are winning, you are like a human hurricane, nothing can stand in your way. You defy the Gods, or do you? In fact you impress them, as Bukowski said. When you are losing, you are an insignificant gimp. — Robert Black

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood. — Pat Conroy

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. — C. K. Prahalad

These republics [the German city states] in which a free and pure government is maintained will not suffer any of their citizens either to be, or to live as gentlemen; but on the contrary, while preserving strict equality among themselves, are bitterly hostile to all those gentlemen and lords who dwell in their neighbourhood; so that if by chance any of these fall into their hand, they put them to death, as the chief promoters of corruption and the origin of all disorders.
But to make plain what I mean when I speak of gentlemen, I say that those are so to be styled who live in opulence and idleness on the revenues of their estates, without concerning themselves with the cultivation of these estates, or incurring any other fatigue for their support.
- Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius — Niccolo Machiavelli

Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines. — Morten Hogsberg

Fortunately in Libya, there's only a few cities on the coast, because most of Libya is a desert. The fact of the matter is, we absolutely have to be - and not just with special forces - I mean, that's not going to work. Come on, you've got to go back to the invasion, when we pushed Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. We have to be there on the ground in significant numbers. We do have to include our Muslim Arab friends to work with us on that. And we have to be in the air. And we - it should be a broad coalition made up of the kinds of people that were involved when we defeated Saddam. — Donald Trump

She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what other people saw in her - -that is, what she imagined they saw in her. — Steph Bowe

Stories Jane, are magic and magic will always carry you to wonderful places, even at the worst of times. — Elle Alexander

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Hope, that fragile tiny feather of a thing, flew away. — Victoria Kahler

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers. — Ira Glass

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss. — Jay Griffiths

If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do. — Rush Limbaugh

If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change. — Mike Huckabee

Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government. — Neal Boortz