Top 747 Quotes & Sayings by Czechoslovakian Authors - Page 13

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

Obviously it's very hard for everybody to be successful in the Grand Slams, so that's why some of the players, they lose, and they should not lose.

I was always a player who has ups and downs. I could play unbelievable, and I could lose to someone.

I'm always nice.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.

The older you get, the more you learn.

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

What my day is like depends on where I am.

Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.'

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.

Now the ambulance is always ready; the paramedics are always ready. People in the crowd can get help without risk. If you look at the Fabrice Muamba case, this is what helped save his life - the paramedics are there.

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

I'm doing modeling to stay alive. I don't enjoy my work. I don't find it creative. You don't need brains, and there are no heavy qualifications. All it takes is not to be shy and to dare to make a fool of yourself. But I shouldn't complain, because I am privileged enough to be overpaid.

There are so many people I wish I could have met:

Heroism in a bad cause.