Famous England Rugby Quotes & Sayings

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? — Soren Kierkegaard

But to us of a later generation ... it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them. — Leo Tolstoy

There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life. — Wallace D. Wattles

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin. — Amy Tan

Perhaps the book opened a door; books have a way of causing ripples. — Erika Swyler

There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER. — Bill Murray

In the years just before ... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

She was a counselor, a therapist, a beautiful woman. He was nothing. That's what he was. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. — Walt Whitman

Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished. — Bill Bailey