Top 747 Quotes & Sayings by Czechoslovakian Authors - Page 11

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.

In no other country is football lived like it is in Italy, almost to the point of overkill. There is too much football on TV and in the papers, there is always talk about football during the week.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

I still dream about doing something simple, very simple and universal.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

I won't let any ambassador have a say about my foreign travels.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness.

I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.

Those are the titles you play for, so I'd like to have a Grand Slam title in my life, and I'll do my best to do it.

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

I'm not interested in how long I can hold out, but in how fast I can reach the finishing line.

I like the big matches against the greatest players.

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Looking good is the best revenge.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

Normally, my goal is to get past the first round, because that's the hardest.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

By the fruits which it bears is the tree known.

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

Winning two Wimbledons is very nice, no matter what.

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Almost every Grand Slam, I'm in second week, which is pretty positive for me.

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

I feel young at heart, and I feel, like, you know, 40.