E. V. Knox Quotes

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses. But this has never stopped us dreaming of them that way.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

Life lived somehow for love is life never wasted.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

My family's the most important thing to me right now, and I just want to go be with them right now.

Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

If you could have won, you should have.

Football players win football games.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?

Only love... can kill the demon.

Killing you and what you represent is a statement. I''m not a hundred percent sure exactly what it''s saying

Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Life is real, and you canot live a lie.

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.

A leader or president that never rebukes violence, is like one that takes utter pride in it's rage

Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?

The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.

A child is like a relationship. You can only shape it as it's growing, or it becomes a menace if let to grow without respect, understanding and focus.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

Today is a season for tomorrow's harvest

Sharing knowledge is sharing wealth