"Itâ€™s a strange griefâ€¦to die of nostalgia for something you never lived."

-- Alessandro Baricco

#Grief Quotes #Strange Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.”

Source : "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.
“I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.”
“You're either competing or you're not.”

Source : "Pete Carroll Q&A: Seahawks HC Talks Motivation, Consistency and Coaching History". Interview with Jason Cole, bleacherreport.com.
“When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands.”
“Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.”
“You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.”
“Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.”
“The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”

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