Craig Olson Sports Quotes & Sayings

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said. — Sylvia Plath

Well, it is very odd of you to threaten to throw your friends out of the window, I must say," remarked Juliana.
He smiled. "Not at all. It is only my friends that I would throw out of the window."
"Dear me!" said Juliana, finding the male sex incomprehensible.
-Chapter XIII — Georgette Heyer

Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn't your own. Sometimes you're chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man's, grown in a different heart, and it takes longer than a fading bruise to forget. — Gregory David Roberts

Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.
Coming back I comment, "He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together."
Bill laughs. "And that's the best way to learn, too. — Robert M. Pirsig

He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he would be the man he was. — Maile Meloy

When the things get hard, there is a success near about. — Lovely Goyal

Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime labors. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another. — Tony Judt

Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough. — N.K. Jemisin

There are certain things in which we so rarely meet with our double that it seems a miracle when that chance befalls. — Charlotte Bronte

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau

What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did not dominate in these associations, as the writers, whom I have just mentioned, pretended; they were not necessarily the soul, the head, the grand master of masonry as Gougenot des Mousseaux affirms. It is certain however that there were Jews in the very cradle of masonry, kabbalist Jews, as some of the rites which have been preserved prove. — Bernard Lazare

You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail. — Daniel Lapin