Noam Chomsky Sports Quotes

#1. Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#2. Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.

Ilchi Lee

#3. The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.

Noam Chomsky

#4. The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

John Szarkowski

#5. Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

Ingrid Betancourt

#6. It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But [is] not all right to run away.

Miyuki Miyabe

#7. I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts ... In contrast, when discussing matters of concern to human lives - their own and others - people tend to defer to experts.

Noam Chomsky

#8. I don't have empathy, Sahara. I can't feel for those who are going to die. It would be akin to asking a falcon to take flight when his wings had long been hacked off.

Nalini Singh

#9. Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Stanley Schmidt

#10. Gratitude is glory to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.

Alain Ducasse

#12. Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow?

Rona Barrett

#13. In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

Francis Bacon

#14. One of the functions that things like professional sports play, in our society and others, is to offer an area to deflect people's attention from things that matter, so that the people in power can do what matters without public interference.

Noam Chomsky

#15. Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.

Angelina Jolie

#16. Why do we say 'the cockles of your heart'?" David said. "Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.

Philip Hensher

#17. Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

Noam Chomsky

#18. My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor