Schelde Sports Quotes

#1. Misfortune simply is. And when you wall it off, you do not have a clear conscience, because perhaps you are supposed to dedicate all your efforts and all your attention to it. And all you can say in your own defense is 'I want to live.

Czeslaw Milosz

#2. I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear.

Indu Muralidharan

#4. Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

Vinnie Jones

#5. It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

Joseph Hall

#6. The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology

M. M. Mangasarian

#7. We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#8. We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.

Doris Lessing

#9. To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

John Berger

#10. Back pain is the single most common reason people visit the doctor.

A. J. Jacobs

#11. A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.

Jeannette Walls

#12. I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.

Sylvia Plath

#13. [The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#14. Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.

John Updike

#15. Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.

Wess Stafford