Sportive Store Quotes & Sayings

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. — Isaac Asimov

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. — Henry David Thoreau

I seemed to have been born reading. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along. — Rebecca Adamson

Chatter: any conversation with someone who has not suffered. — Emil Cioran

Sunsets require sunshine ["Surveillance: Out of the Shadows," New York Review of Books, June 2, 2015]. — David Cole

Who does not end up a female impersonator? — Anne Carson

Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians. — Seth Klarman

You cannot be anything other than who you are. Trees don't stand around comparing heights. Flowers don't compare colours. There is a great power in total acceptance. — Stephen Shaw

The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game. — Timothy Shriver

The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages. — Don DeLillo

Nick almost breaks a full smile when the men around him laugh aloud. "I don't kiss on the cheek." He said smoothly giving her the opportunity to end it there, but instead, she drags the bride over to him and asks again. — Jennifer Loren

People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. — Kat Lehmann