Gnappetta Quotes & Sayings

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it. — Bill Bryson

Some men are more easily broken by kindness than censure. — Patrick W. Carr

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. — Friedrich Schiller

I think if we have a policy of zero violence, it won't be met, but the policy of getting the Iraqis in the fight and marginalizing those who are trying to stir up trouble will be effective. — George W. Bush

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism. — Iain Banks

The Frankfurt School masterminds for indoctrination into collectivist mindsets. Those men's understanding of human psychology was infallible: Ideas that the general public sees and hears on a repetitive basis will eventually achieve agreement with the ideas put forth or impair the individual judgment necessary to refute them. — Alexandra York

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it. — Novak Djokovic

The game's rules were Byzantine, and we had to work them out through trial and error. One rule, which had only gradually become apparent, was that one could only move into another character's head if the move did not involve too big a jump in social status. A peasant could not swap into the head of a king, even if the king knelt down to kiss the peasant. But the peasant could get there by jumping into the head of a blacksmith, and then an armourer, and then an officer in the king's guard, and so on - working their way up by discrete steps. Sometimes it would not be possible to change character between one session and the next, but that was all part of the game's richly involving texture. It was difficult and slow, but because at each step one had access to the memories and personality of the inhabited character, it was seldom boring. — Alastair Reynolds

God chose the people of Israel to manifest Himself strong through signs and wonders but to also initiate the Temple — Paul Gitwaza

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching. — Leonard Susskind

To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie. — Bob Newhart