Odete Dasilva Quotes & Sayings

How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.' — Craig Brown

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations. — Tullian Tchividjian

You can fool too many people, too much of the time. — James Thurber

A strident female voice causes men's ears to close. — Emma Donoghue

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born. — Mohsin Hamid

His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.
(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James) — Herbert A. Wise

Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope. — Clive Barker

There was before her and now there is after her, and that is the difference in my life. — John Burnham Schwartz

There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great. — Angela Merkel

Worship, not work, flows out of the hearts of those who believe. — Emily P. Freeman

I can't even imagine what it's like to run for 5 or 6 hours. — Bill Rodgers

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor. — Patrick Wilson

Perhaps the moral of the story is that as uncivilized as we humans so often act, we are ultimately civilized beings. The sad thing is that so many of the people who got off the trail in this fashion would have been perfectly happy if they could have just forced themselves to hoist their pack, hitch back to the trail, and take the very first few steps. The challenge simply lay in beginning. — Bill Walker