Otus And Ephialtes Quotes

#1. Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Epictetus

#3. I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. We're sprinting at the speed of light when the ground gives way and we rise into the air as if racing up stairs.

Jandy Nelson

#5. After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

Carl Lewis

#6. Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.

Michael Lewis

#7. I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

Yannick Noah

#8. Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Willem De Kooning

#9. She had paid for these mistakes. (Had she?) But still, you are never fully acquitted of any mistake that involves another, and so the Intern had not been fully acquitted of her mistakes, and her shame of such mistakes.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence.

Peggy Joyce Ruth

#11. I need to go in and pack." I reached for the door, refusing to look at Collin. "You do whatever the hell you want." "Because you sure do," Collin said dryly. "Damn fucking straight.

Denise Grover Swank