Carlson Gracie Quotes

#1. So I left words of forgiveness to God and liars and I enjoyed my hatred.

Jennifer Mardoll

#2. If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.

Carlson Gracie

#3. If there is ever a word of criticism of America, it is of the most muted kind.

J.M. Coetzee

#4. I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

V.C. Andrews

#5. He looked so - what was it that gave him his irresistible charm? He looked so accessible. That was it. A great simple truth struck me with surprise: charm is availability.

Elaine Dundy

#6. There is no reward without sacrifice.

Carlson Gracie

#7. If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!

Carlson Gracie

#8. You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent.

Carlson Gracie

#9. Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

Carlson Gracie

#10. The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Washington Irving

#11. Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple ...

Carlson Gracie

#12. You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.

Pat McBride

#13. The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes - saving.

Mark Thornton

#14. If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.

Carlson Gracie

#15. My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I dream of a world where all people of all races work together in harmony.

Nelson Mandela

#16. The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.

Carlson Gracie

#17. Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

Carlson Gracie

#18. If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

Carlson Gracie

#19. Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

Carlson Gracie

#20. The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

Vladimir Lenin

#21. I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Kurt Schrader

#22. I always figured nerves were for Jane Austen characters and helium-voiced girls who never buy their round; I would no more have turned shaky in a crisis than I would have carried smelling salts around in my reticule.

Tana French