Cycling Positive Quotes & Sayings

We ought to read daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A lot of people ... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid. — Howard Hodgkin

It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician. — Anjelica Huston

Strax gave a snort of amusement. 'It is surely a very simple choice. One option is for a quiet life with honest work amongst other humans paying a living wage and with prospects of promotion within a distinguished household. The other... ' He drew himself up to his full height and looked up at them, 'is the prospect of constant danger, fear and risk. No chance of ever seeing your friends again, or making new ones. The knowledge that death waits around the next corner and you are unlikely to see the end of the next week without at the very least a serious injury. A glorious alternative. — Justin Richards

Another factor: Christianity offered opportunities for advancement in the church to intelligent young men, some of whom might otherwise have become mathematicians or scientists. Bishops and presbyters were generally exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary civil courts, and from taxation. A bishop such as Cyril of Alexandria or Ambrose of Milan could exercise considerable political power, much more than a scholar at the Museum in Alexandria or the Academy in Athens. This was something new. Under paganism religious offices had gone to men of wealth or political power, rather than wealth and power going to men of religion. For instance, Julius Caesar and his successors won the office of supreme pontiff, not as a recognition of piety or learning, but as a consequence of their political power. — Steven Weinberg

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. — John Kennedy Toole

Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended. — Hildegard Of Bingen

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so. — Hampton Sides

"That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her. — Tarryn Fisher

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache — Chinua Achebe

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there. — Patrick Fugit

The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another. — Laura Huxley

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is. — Diablo Cody

You learn so much by having customers and figuring out what they want and keeping them satisfied. — Bre Pettis