Sharkys Quotes & Sayings

It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it. — David Rudisha

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension. — Santiago Calatrava

A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose-well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible. He picked up his pen again, and under the words "Not to be published" drew a second line, thicker and blacker than the first; then sighed, "What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness! — Aldous Huxley

I'm not running for president. — Elizabeth Warren

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left. — Itzhak Perlman

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift! — Jon Pall Sigmarsson

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word. — Alan Arkin

Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism - the politics of fear. — Graham E. Fuller

Dressing well was also a sign of respect, for yourself and for others. — Mireille Guiliano

Rose is undistractable, indefatigable, a problem solver.
Work is her essence, her animating spirit, and the core of her impact on me. Her dedication to it helps make my life possible, connects the two of us in this powerful way. — Jon Katz

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others. — Deepak Chopra