All Quotes
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“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. As quoted in Jet magazine Vol. 58, No. 1”
“by George Plimpton in”
“The perfect 10 was not just about the score, it was about the feeling of perfection.”
“I never thought about winning medals. I just wanted to do my best.”
“Gymnastics taught me discipline and that everything is possible.”
“The Olympics were my dream, and I worked every day to achieve it.”
“You cannot put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
“Success is not just about winning, it is about overcoming your fears.”
“Every routine is a new challenge, a new opportunity to be perfect.”
“When I was on the beam, nothing else existed. Just me and the beam.”
“My philosophy is to always try to be better than yesterday.”
“Hard work and dedication are the keys to achieving perfection.”
“El valor es como el amor: necesita esperanza para alimentarse.”
“La mejor manera de mantener la palabra es no darla.”
“El poder es mi amante. He trabajado demasiado para conquistarlo.”
“La mayor de las artes es la de gobernar.”
“If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities. "Fanshawe"”
“Sketches from Memory”
“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections ; not that they gape so long and wide”
“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”
“Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system , and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”
“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England's sons will vindicate their ancestry. "The Gray Champion" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”
“By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places”
“Lo, there ye stand, my children,”
“The Maypole of Merry Mount”
“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth. "The Wedding Knell" (1837) from Twice”
“There are thousands of people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non”
“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France , England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history . On a 1961 conference held in Ethiopia, as quoted in Rivonia Unmasked (1965) by Strydom Lautz, p. 108; also in Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Nelson Mandela : An Ecological Study (2002), by J. C. Buthelezi, p. 172”
“In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys”
“It is fit and proper to raise the question sharply, what is this rigid color”