David Roback Quotes & Sayings

Though old and wise, yet still advise. — George Herbert

Antigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.
Ismene: Who said that?
Antigone: Hegel.
Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett.
Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel.
Ismene: I don't think so. — Anne Carson

When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises, — Paulo Coelho

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. — Euripides

If I had known what trouble you were bearing;
What griefs were in the silence of your face;
I would have been more gentle, and more caring,
And tried to give you gladness for a space.
I would have brought more warmth into the place,
If I had known.
If I had known what thoughts despairing drew you;
(Why do we never try to understand?)
I would have lent a little friendship to you,
And slipped my hand within your hand,
And made your stay more pleasant in the land,
If I had known. — Mary Carolyn Davies

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent. — Dorothy Hamill

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself ... — Harry Browne

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. — Ralph Washington Sockman

After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore. — Genesis P-Orridge

Put in the starkest terms, there is no measure by which we can adequately quantify the devastation a mass nuclear attack would have on our civilization. My — William Perry

Today's choices become tomorrow's circumstances. Proverbs 27:12 says, The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. — Lysa TerKeurst

How we think and feel about ourselves has an enormous impact on our ability to perform. A healthy self-image can tip the scales in our favor and equip us with the certitude and grace we need to push forward in victory, even through the most difficult situations. It gives us the mindset we need to prevail. — Kristen Clark

I collected their papers. The ones that blew into Brooklyn. They were just there at first. I didn't even know what they were. But once I did, I went all over the place, picking them up. I don't know what to do with them. I mean, they're meaningless now, but they still exist. You can't throw out something like that. You can't make them gone like that. — David Levithan

In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten. — Agatha Christie

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are. — Barry Bonds