Smethwick Swimming Quotes & Sayings

... It is immensely moving when a mature man - no matter whether old or young in years - is aware of a responsibility with heart and soul. He then acts by following an ethic of responsibility and somewhere reaches the point where he says: 'Here I stand; I can do no other'. That is something genuinely human and moving. And every one of us who is not spiritually dead must realize the possibility of finding himself at some time in that position. In so far as this is true, an ethic of ultimate ends and an ethic of responsibility are not absolute contrasts but rather supplements, which only in unison constitute a genuine man - a man who can have the 'calling for politics'. — Max Weber

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs. — Jared Diamond

Only cheaters prosper. — Howard Tayler

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans. — Mark Twain

Act by everyone, in the same manner as if you supposed yourself to be him, and him to be you. — Hierocles

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me. — Sandra Bullock

SO MANY PEOPLE, SO FEW POETS — Amy King

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld