Pierrette Bloch Quotes

#1. The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

Eugen Herrigel

#2. If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it's those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrity hood ... Trust me, one's view of the world isn't any clearer from the back seat of a limo.

Pat Sajak

#3. I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Lance Armstrong

#4. You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Bill Russell

#6. My mother always said I was special." "Well, she got that right, I suppose. She just didn't know how." "She also mentioned 'especially stubborn' from time to time.

Matt Forbeck

#7. I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.

John F. Kerry

#8. It was the kind of closeness that didn't need conversation to sustain itself: quite often we would meet, travel to the gym, work out on the weights, box a few rounds, spend half an hour sparring at karate, and speak no more than ten words to one another.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.

Edgerrin James

#10. The ruling idea of his life appeared to be, that he was bound to show his gratitude to the country which had afforded him an asylum and a means of subsistence by doing his utmost to turn himself into an Englishman.

Wilkie Collins