Nancy Greene Quotes
Sad Quotes by Nancy Greene

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people
cared about what I did and what I achieved.
- Nancy Greene

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed.
There are so many great women athletes,
some incredible performances.
- Nancy Greene

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same.
You have to have a real love of your sport to carry
you through all the bad times,
you still want to go ski even when things aren't working.
You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
- Nancy Greene

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

I have been out again on the river, rowing.
I find nothing new.
- Fanny Kemble

It was like falling off a building and suddenly,
bang, you hit the bottom.
The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home.
I was taking down some curtains.
I took one step, turned around, took another step and
then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.
- Jonah Lomu

Take a look at your natural river.
What are you? Stop playing games with yourself.
Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or
are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there
is no effort if you're riding with your river?
- Frederick Carl Frieseke

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

Every man casts a shadow;
not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit.
This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,
it falls opposite to the sun;
short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
- Henry David Thoreau

I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France

The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill

Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen

There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham

People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill

Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous

Are you feeling stressed and upset?
If so, you are worrying about tomorrow.
Events that have already occurred may cause you regret,
but they only appear to cause worry.
If you just lost your job, you are not worrying about losing your job -
that already happened.
You are worrying about paying your bills and finding a new job.
Those are worries about tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller

Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson

There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill

If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban

The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus