Top 747 Quotes & Sayings by Czechoslovakian Authors - Page 4

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.

It means a lot; I always love to represent my country, and it's an honor to be part of the Olympics and be with other athletes.

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.

My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.

I know all the opponents are behind me, so I should win every match, which is tough.

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture.

People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

It's a team game. Sometimes individuals play and sometimes not. I'm happy with what I have achieved and I hope I can accomplish even more.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

Behind every morsel of bread, fruits, or meat is a large amount of transformed fossil fuels.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

I'm so focused on the game that I hardly understand what the people sing or shout or what they do.

I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you don't need good technique. But jugging 400 meters, that's a big deal.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.

If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

My name is Paulina Porizkova, and I am a feminist.

Quiet is definitely not how I would describe New York, but if I go outside of the front door, I see the beautiful Central Park, so it's a nice place to be. And I have a very quiet room, which helps!

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Of course it's one of my goals to win another grand slam. Wimbledon was great - so if it's Wimbledon again, that's fine - but I think I have the game to win the other grand slams as well.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear.

You always have best memories when you win a title somewhere.

For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.

I think I can win a slam. That's my main goal, and if I could choose one, then yes, it would have to be Wimbledon. But, honestly, I would take any one of them.

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.

People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'

I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.

Don't get mad. Get everything!

Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey.

Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court.

I had a Skoda, but after Wimbledon, I changed to BMW.

My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there are a lot of things which you can say in Czech, but you cannot really translate, because the meaning would make no sense.

I like to compete.

It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between.