Top 747 Quotes & Sayings by Czechoslovakian Authors - Page 2

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

In each of my homes, I have a leopard room. I don't know why, but I do. It's like my lounge next to the dressing rooms.

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.

Art must not serve might.

At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

The village where my father lives is, like, 300 people.

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food.

The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

Economic and technical imperatives - not any preconceived directives - will keep propelling the process of energy transition.

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

Because I have always felt privileged. I have been able to do what I love, I have always been treated well, I have always been paid well so that's why. I feel that I owe something; that I need to return something. It's always been a great pleasure but nevertheless I do feel this responsibility.

If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

I just want to play well, and I want to win.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

Sometimes, you mustn't think about risking your career and make a decision right from your heart.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

Obviously, to win title, go in Grand Slam semi-final, is always super positive and good.

When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.

Harvesting the biosphere is still the most fundamental human activity. Without that, everybody's dead, really. We could do quite well without microchips, or the business site of 'Atlantic Monthly,' the gated communities, Guccis, and high-growth GDP. But we cannot do without harvesting the crops and cutting down the wood.

I think every model has times when they get obnoxious and crazy. You all of a sudden realize you are young and beautiful and you have money, and you just kind of go nutty for awhile.

I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

You have to have respect for money, but sometimes you get people who stop thinking about their career, and for them, it is just a case of saying, 'Look at me. I have a lot of money now, and I can do whatever I want.' I wouldn't do that.