Dieter Sprockets Quotes

#1. For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Jack Nicklaus

#3. In his humble opinion, she possessed the least appealing traits a woman can put on display: undiscriminating curiosity and nonsensical verbosity.

Carol Vorvain

#4. Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

Henry Hazlitt

#5. The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

Anatole France

#6. This was your heart
This swarm of flies
This was once your mouth
This bowl of lies
You serve them well
I'm not surprised
You're of their kin
You're of their kind

Leonard Cohen

#7. An optimist without realism is an idiot.

Ben Tolosa

#8. The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

Ruzwana Bashir

#9. There is no one can convince you otherwise when you've finally found where you belong. The whole experience of belonging somewhere also gives a good sense of well being.

Euginia Herlihy

#10. I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Seamus Heaney

#11. Happy we do our work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I'm not going to tell anybody, not even Lilly. Lilly would NOT understand. NOBODY would understand. Because nobody I know has ever been in this situation before. Nobody ever went to bed one night as one person and then woke up the next morning to find out that she was somebody completely different.

Meg Cabot

#13. When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

Gary Zukav

#14. I had begun my time of waiting. I was living my life, and yet I seemed somehow to be outside of it, as if only when the war was over and Virgil came home would I be able to come back into my life and live again inside it.

Wendell Berry

#15. How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'

Craig Brown