I don't hate anyone — at least, not for more than forty-eight minutes, barring overtime. —Charles Barkley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting. —George Orwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. —Muhammad Ali More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Boys who spent their weekends making banana-nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. —David Sedaris More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media; I am against the glorification of immoral violence. —Dennis Prager More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest. —Bion of Borysthenes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After watching a performance of his play Peter Pan with his five-year-old godson, J.M. Barrie asked the boy what he had liked best. "What I think I liked best," the boy replied, "was tearing up the program and dropping the bits on people's heads. —Lapham's Quarterly More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. —Plato More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right. —Alice Thomas Ellis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death does not wait to see if things are done or not done. —The Kularnava Tantra More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life-support system, I definitely want to be unplugged — but not until I get down to a size eight. —Henriette Mantel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death selected voluntarily, death at the right time, consummated with brightness and cheerfulness in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible where he is yet present who takes his leave. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. —Erik Erikson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about. —Ingmar Bergman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email