Multi Sport Athlete Quotes & Sayings

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations. — John Owen

What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it. — Cornel West

When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited ... — Zig Ziglar

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. — W. H. Auden

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate. — Frederick Lenz

You attract only the people, situations and outcomes
that you either want or need. — Russell Anthony Gibbs

There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people to vote. And you have seen this in Paraguay and they are reaping the harvest now of fifty years of dictatorship. — John Gimlette

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array. — Ruth Ozeki

I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week. — Charlotte Ronson

Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain. — Heather O'Neill

If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible. — Russell Crowe

The Texas Rangers," he said softly, "are dead. All six of them have gone. In their place there's just one man. The lone Ranger." He — Fran Striker

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display. — Dionne Brand

They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only ... now ... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was. — Lionel Shriver