Guttmann Quotes

#1. For example, the ancient Japanese had onna-zumo (women's wrestling), but as the sports historian Allen Guttmann writes, "The debased motivation for this activity is suggested by the names of the wrestlers: 'Big Boobs,' 'Deep Crevice,' and 'Holder of the Balls.

Jonathan Gottschall

#2. He loves white cables. And white telephones. And white computer monitors with fruit on the back.

Fredrik Backman

#3. To the end, no matter what it is you are considering. Often enough, God gives a man a glimpse of happiness, and then utterly ruins him. THE HISTORIES, HERODOTUS, FIFTH CENTURY B.C. Indians

Robert Greene

#4. Roth cocked his head to the side. More like I was afraid you wouldn't and that's the problem. He went down a step and turned to me. I left you because if you woke up and you asked me to kiss you,I wouldn't be able to stop a second time around.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.

Tove Jansson

#6. People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ... let my body do what it knows

Ian Thorpe

#7. The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

A.E. Housman

#8. We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.

Jack Ma

#9. Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Spider Robinson

#10. Who the hell knows where they get these farkakte names for their kids. One of Rita's friends named her son Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva Rosenblatt. Can you imagine? Rita always says, 'It's no big deal. They call him 'Bodi', is all.' Please. And the newspapers say I'm abusive to children?

Susan Jane Gilman

#11. Duty to his wife. Duty to his children. Duty to work, to committees, to charities. Duty to Lynette. Duty to the other women. It was exhausting. It demanded stamina. At times he amazed even himself.

Richard Flanagan

#12. Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

Mahatma Gandhi