Sportive Tricks Quotes

#1. And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

Rahm Emanuel

#2. Who, in 2007, would have thought that a drawing by Willem De Kooning would be a safer asset than shares in Lehman Brothers? By autumn 2008, this would clearly be the case.

Sarah Thornton

#3. Why is it that when someone says there are billions upon billions of stars up there in that beautiful sky you believe them, but when a sign says 'wet paint' you just have to touch it?

Allie Little

#4. Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

Philip Neri

#6. It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Diogenes

#7. I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

Stewart O'Nan

#8. Perhaps there is after all nothing mysterious in Zen. Everything is open to your full view. If you eat your food and keep yourself cleanly dressed and work on the farm to raise your rice or vegetables, you are doing all that is required of you on this earth, and the infinite is realized in you.

D.T. Suzuki

#9. Despereaux thought that he might faint with the pleasure of someone referring to his ears as small and lovely. He laid his tail against the Pea's wrist to steady himself and he felt the princess's pulse, the pounding of her heart, and his own heart immediately took up the rhythm of hers.

Kate DiCamillo

#10. True love is not in possessions or obsessions; it is in appreciation.

Debasish Mridha

#11. We must get out of the banged-up century, some said, out of this cheating, murderous century of riot and secret death, of scrabbling for public land and damn well getting them by any means.

John Steinbeck

#12. One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.

Bridie Clark

#13. It is a new world, and we must decide how we are to end this old one and begin it anew.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

Richard Paul Evans