Top 747 Quotes & Sayings by Czechoslovakian Authors - Page 3

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

Men, today we die a little.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

I'm going to try to put less pressure on myself, but I know how easy it is to say that rather than to feel it, but that's how it is.

I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and harder to commit to only one person in a lifetime.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

I appreciate and love blue-green algae.

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.

Living in the woods is part of my origins, it's like when I was a kid.

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

During Wimbledon, I ate only rice and pineapple. My coach cooked for me. He made sweet rice.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

How goodness heightens beauty!

You appreciate things after you lose them.

I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.

Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

That's why I won: because I believed I had a chance.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

The grass is a very big challenge for me. There are these low bounces and different movements, which is very difficult, especially for my height and weight. When the surfaces change, and I start to play on grass, I start to feel it in the lower back and the lower hamstring.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons.

Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.

Renewable energy is very significant.

I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.

I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.

I can see that the tennis for the fans could be a bit boring, and these days you have these new modern things which you can do, and you have a lot of time, because you just play a match, and practise, and many times in between you can bring many things to the fans.

I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.

China's a lucky place for me!

I learnt since I was a child growing up in a small village in the Czech Republic that I had to be like that to compete, to be the best and then to compete against the best. There has not been a second, a minute, an hour, a day that I have missed because I always wanted to improve.

I had a depressed skull fracture. A few pieces of bone went in quite deep; that was the biggest danger.

Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.

This is the question I'm asking: Do Americans live twice as long because they consume twice as much energy as Europeans? Are you people twice as smart as the average Frenchman? Do you enjoy life twice as much as the average Danish guy? What have we gotten for consuming twice as much energy as Europe? What have we gotten in return?

Every time I am off the tennis tour, I go back home.

I used to think the word 'feminist' reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn't need to say it.

There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot!

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

We won back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006, and it was a fantastic achievement, a fantastic feeling. Once you experience that, you want to have it again.

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.