Michels Quotes & Sayings

Death and love are the only two things that exist in this world that are strong enough to alter the course of your life, of your destiny. They either propeld you or paralyze you. In the end, the choice is always yours. - Wes Michels — Rachel Van Dyken

Don't be ridiculous, please.'
The most insulting words in the world! — L.M. Montgomery

The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe ... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy. — Immortal Technique

The government [...] cannot be anything other than the organization of a minority. It is the aim of this minority to impose upon the rest of society a 'legal order', which is the outcome of the exigencies of dominion and of the exploitation of the mass of helots effected by the ruling minority, and can never be truly representative of the majority. — Robert Michels

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels

The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team
function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field
and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take
advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack. — Rinus Michels

Beauty is achieved through perfection of body and mind. — Elizabeth Michels

Well, fallen angel. Now you're quite ruined," she said, reverting to the formal you. "No, aren't you afraid? Well, goodbye! You'll get back on your own, right? — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I had forgotten this - the thrill of touching someone new, trying to decipher the meaning of each tiny movement. — Anna Michels

What did it matter that the Light had been taken away from him? What did it matter that Arienne was gone? If it took a thousand years to find her...if he had to cross boiling seas or raging skies...if it cost him his eyes or his tongue, his hands or his feet, his very soul... He would relinquish it all, if it meant he could keep that promise he'd made so long ago. He had nothing else. Without this, he knew, he would simply wither away. — S.K. Michels

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Football is business and business is business. — Rinus Michels

The future may bring you darkness, but it can't take away your ability to create light. — Michels Barry

Kate Winslet is my girl crush. — Angela Kinsey

Sometimes it's the flaws that make something lovely. — Elizabeth Michels

There are two ways to look at the Planet Earth: (1) It is contracting and shrinking - therefore my chances are scarce. Colloquially put, "there ain't enough to go 'round so I've got to get mine!" (2) It is expanding and growing with opportunity - my chances are based on abundance. The choice is mine, and time is my ally.26 — Caroll Michels

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks. — Ethel M. Dell

Moriarty: ... everything I have to say has already crossed your mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle

He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live. — Elizabeth Michels

Death is Nature's remedy for all things, — Charles Dickens

Why is this important? Because it means the division between God and man has been abolished. Vanished. How? Because the great Jehovah, the One whose name may only be whispered once each year by the anointed high priest, had sent - yes, sent - his Son to be crucified. Why? How could the eternal Lord of all do such a thing? — Janette Oke

Seriously." He turned me so I was facing him. "I'm not gonna lie. I want you. I want you so freaking bad that I'm pretty sure when I get to heaven I'm going to be sainted. — Rachel Van Dyken

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent! — Kurtis Blow