Laurent Fignon quotes

“Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer”
-- Laurent Fignon

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“Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood?”
-- Laurent Fignon

Source : Laurent Fignon (2010). “We Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon”, p.58, Random House

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“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.”

Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

“We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.”

“Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.”

“Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

“We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.”

“Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.”