Hochschorner Pavol Quotes & Sayings

I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else. — Ludivine Sagnier

Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family. — Don McLean

The calendar hath not an evil day
For souls made one by love, and even death
Were sweetness, if it came like rolling waves
While they two clasped each other, and foresaw
No life apart. — George Eliot

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security. — William Sloane Coffin

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. — Bruce Barton

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men. — Donna Summer

We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And, for the most of it, the fiction works. We skim across surfaces, heedless of the depths below. Dragonflies flitting over a lake, miles deep, pursuing erratic paths to pointless ends. Until that moment when something from the cold unknown reaches up to take us.
The biggest lies we save for ourselves. We play a game in which we are gods, in which we make choices, and the current follows in our wake. We pretend a separation from the wild. Pretend that a man's control runs deep, that civilization is more than a veneer, that reason will be our companion in dark places. — Mark Lawrence

write a poem and spit fire. — Gwen Calvo

Dynamic capability is the ability to reconfigure your organization in the way that has the effect of increasing its variety. — Pearl Zhu

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful. — Elizabeth Warren

Watson, if the newspapers could be punished for speculation, every publication in England would soon enough be bankrupted. — Lyndsay Faye

The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us a continuation of our training, we will compete in only this World cup. We don't want to travel too much before the Olympic Games and we want to focus on the Games. — Pavol Hochschorner

At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.) — Lara Biyuts

American Evangelicals are fond of quoting the Declaration of Independence when it insists, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." Curiously, not as much fondness is found for quoting what comes later in the very same sentence: "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. — Gordon Runyan

The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs. — Greg Mortenson