Palaestra Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Stalker
Mr. Kinky
Mr. Spellcaster
Mr. Charming
Mr. Personality
Mr. Stalker
Mr. Celebrity
Mr. Beautiful
Mr. Mercurial — R.K. Lilley

Children only come through you, you don't create them. It is a privilege that they have happened through you. Enjoy the privilege; don't think of it as an authority. Just enjoy the privilege that another life chose to come through you into this world. — Jaggi Vasudev

Health, wealth, happiness,
live long and always prosper,
have families and also friends,
let them be lasting in me forever. — Toba Beta

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking — Robert Hass

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain. — Giovanni Ribisi

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done. — Gabrielle Reece

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn. — John Wooden

Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two who met in Taureas' palaestra. But what kind of fool would plant an apple-slip, to cut it down at the season when the fruit is setting? Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain. — Mary Renault

Attitude is that litmus test which differentiates a knower from a doer. Knowers have only the skills; doers have the skills and the will to do what they know! — Israelmore Ayivor

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to. — Kristen Stewart

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. — Will Rogers

My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny. — Zach Galifianakis

One of them, the philosopher Philostratus, summed up the idea by saying that the great athletes of the past "made war training for sport, and sport training for war." Turning Spartan logic on its head, Plutarch even claimed that the Thebans at the great Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC defeated the Spartans because they had done more training at the palaestra; he also wrote that sport, wrestling specifically included, was an imitation and exercise of war. — Martin Van Creveld