Dalmar Eventing Quotes & Sayings

If you want to do things, do things. — Grace Paley

It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an emotion that leads anywhere. — Lionel Shriver

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete. — Bill Bowerman

The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements. — Eric Hoffer

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean. — Swami Satchidananda

If you want peace, understand war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake. — Debra Messing

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives. — Katherine Paterson

For years they've grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is their cute nickname for the pope. — Sarah Vowell

I knew what I took upon myself and I was prepared to lose my life by so doing. — Hans Scholl

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future. — Nelson Mandela

In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines. — Marcello Malpighi

I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone. — Sarah Silverman