"It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it"

“I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.”

“When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains.”

Source : Julian Beck (1972). “The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People”, Amadeus Press

“There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.”

“My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.”

“Every boss started as a worker.”

“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”

Source : "John Stott: 10 Memorable Quotes" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. July 28, 2011.

“Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.”

“How sweet war is to such as know it not.”