Etienne Schneider Quotes

Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.

Etienne Schneider

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• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Think
  • Team
  • Win

• As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Manners
  • Even

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Love
  • Why
  • Power

• I love owning my masters.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Masters
  • Owning

• Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • God
  • Important
  • Family

• I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Hate
  • Like

• My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Money
  • Friends

• War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Government
  • Trouble

• A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted. You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Past
  • Simple

• My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

  

  Elena Kagan

• This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Earth
  • Lies
  • Intelligent

• 'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
  • Happy

• It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Different
  • Book
  • Interesting

• Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

  

  Alex Newell
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Singing

• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

  

  James Agee

• There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knowsIs some of it pr- No, 't is not even prose!

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Words
  • Gold

• I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on THE FLINTSTONES!

  

  Bill Maher
  • World
  • Age

• Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Water
  • Ocean
  • Ripple

• Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Power
  • Wall

• Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.

  

  Etienne Schneider
  • Ocean
  • Fishermen