Finkler Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.' — Mark Steel

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. — Margaret Mitchell

Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third ... when you know you're going to lose! — Savielly Tartakower

Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. — Vachel Lindsay

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted. — Ellen Hopkins

I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development. — Stanislav Grof

He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as Wotan's Mickey Mouse. — Sinclair Lewis

Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort. — Stanislaw Lem

I picked the Scholar's or the Chancellor's doors or - especially fun for me - the Timekeeper's, resetting his clock and timepieces? That had especially angered my father, but I'd only done it hoping it would create an extra hour in his day for me. — Mary E. Pearson

Screw you, John."
"Sorry, Sylvie. Can't - they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

The storm is here and now. The rains come and water floods our lives. Nothing last forever and the rainbow always appears. — Michaelson Williams

Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved by any consideration of their love or anything he could say. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There are two words you won't find in Europe: "mercy" and "free". — Srinath Perur