Quotes
Authors
Arthur Hopcraft
"What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality." --
Arthur Hopcraft
#Football Quotes
#People Quotes
#Alcohol Quotes
“Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?”
“Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.”
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
“The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.”
“It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.”
“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”
“The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.”
“Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.”
