Keppeler Germany Quotes & Sayings

I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half. — John Madden

Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts. — Ahmad Al-Tifashi

I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

Scared?" "You haven't lived until you go grave robbing. — Kelly Keaton

Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. — J.K. Rowling

Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution. — Mark Epstein

To find out what another human being feels, a person who isn't you; to get a look under the hood, so to speak. A deep look inside. That's what writing is supposed to do. — Meg Wolitzer

All you have to do is show up and i'm tempted. — M. Leighton

Wherever it might be that good men like Smit go to when they die I hope very much that it has a decent library. — Christopher Leary

What are summer teeth? Summer in their mouth, Some are elsewhere. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. — Theodore Levitt

Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa and the demotic, is like kissing two women. Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications. — Anne Michaels

Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing. — Lord Byron

If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING. — Jay Woodman