Sebastian Coe Quotes

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

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• Everything that I design I would wear myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Design
  • Everything

• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Think
  • Party
  • Religious

• Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Political
  • Religious

• The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• To eat, teeth must meet.

  

  Iris Murdoch

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Beginning

• I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

  

  Jay Hernandez
  • Pretty
  • Basketball

• Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Night

• I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Player

• I realised that acting is not my god.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • God

• The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

  

  John Engler
  • School
  • Education

• To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Great
  • Democracy

• In every age and clime we seeTwo of a trade can never agree.

  

  John Gay
  • Age

• Klaus: Yes, sir.

  

  Daniel Handler

• I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired,'

  

  Brett Favre
  • Wife
  • Tired

• There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Stop
  • Moments
  • Growth

• Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Limitation

• The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth's economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.

  

  Bob Richards
  • Long
  • Home
  • Earth

• The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Imagination

• We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Time

• The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Clouds
  • Limitation