Crouched Sumo Quotes & Sayings

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Always take yourself seriously ... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true. — Wolfgang Tillmans

Knowledge is learning how to do something new, wisdom is being able to put your knowledge into use. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It is only great pain
that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood
that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'
but I know that it makes us deeper. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center. — Josephine Herbst

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist. — Denzel Washington

Three Leahs to get to One Rachel. — Thomas Hardy

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman. — Caitlin Moran

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map. — Richard Davidson

No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride. — Chris Brady

I know it. I feel it. I want it. Loving you is so damn easy that it terrifies me. Not loving you, but the fear of losing it because I'm not good enough. — Lynetta Halat

Even the old should learn. — Aeschylus