Olimpiadi Quotes & Sayings

Honesty is a heart that betrays itself for a dream, a moment, a kiss. — Shannon L. Alder

When people treat you ill, blame your conduct,
or report anything to your disadvantage, enter into
the very soul of them ; examine their understandings,
and see of what nature they are. You will be fully
convinced that the opinion of such mortals is not
worth one troublesome thought. However, you must
be kind to them, for nature has made them your
relations. Besides, the gods give them all sort of
countenance, warn them by dreams and prophecy,
and help them to those things they have a mind. — Marcus Aurelius

So I reckon, what's so secret that I can't let anybody know I know it, not the Galactic Government, not even myself? And the answer is I don't know. Obviously. But I put a few things together and I can begin to guess. When did I decide to run for President? Shortly after the death of President Yooden Vranx. — Douglas Adams

Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice. — Pal Benko

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor. — Alan Lomax

God reserves the right to use people who disagree with me. — Robert A. Cook

Accept yourself, your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment. — Morrie Schwartz.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you. — Joel Osteen

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another. — Albert Camus

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level. — Dave Navarro

Her destination was the hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, a town of twenty thousand. — John Grisham

Only those who'd changed could see
things from a different point of view. — Toba Beta

The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy ... it becomes simple, fair and easy. — John Spence

The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even look at them, and then they have to show something that holds that interst - and naturally they have to be presentable, just as a song has to be sung well, otherwise people run away. One mustn't underrate this quality, and I have always been delighted when my pieces have also appealed to the museum guards, the laymen. — Gerhard Richter

I'm a guardian angel. I'm condemned to share the responsibility for my ward's life, and therefore the ultimate course of the progression of the human species. So you see, while I'm here I cannot change my conduct, I cannot choose for myself, and every movement I make sends millions of tiny aftershocks across the present and future of every living human. — E.A.A. Wilson