Percy Hobart Quotes

#1. Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. The light of the world had more or less taken leave of this man, for he was almost blind.
(from 'The Fish can Sing')

Halldor Laxness

#3. We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#4. I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch.

Ronaldinho

#5. And they had a fairly pleasant time in Pretoria. Eventually, I believe, wars will be quite bloodless; rival armies will perambulate, and whenever one side has got into a good position, the other will surrender wholesale.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.

Friedrich Naumann

#7. When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

Tony Hawk

#8. Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

Asa Gray