"Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'"

-- Emil Zatopek

#Genius Quotes #Fool Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.”
“A pitcher is only as good as his legs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.”
“The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.”
“Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we 'possess,' but a gift to him and to others.”
“The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.”
“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.”

Source : 1916 The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

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