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

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Light

• 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 don't want little kids reading my comics.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • Kids
  • Reading

• 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

• Because I'm such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.

  

  Meghann Fahy
  • Die

• 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

• Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Journalism

• Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.

  

  Valerie Wilson Wesley
  • Good
  • Small
  • Present

• I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Real
  • Honest
  • Clouds

• wir vermeinen, daß Härte, Gewaltsamkeit, Sklaverie, Gefahr auf der Gasse und im Herzen, Verborgenheit, Stoicismus, Versucherkunst und Teufelei jeder Art, daß alles Böse, Furchtbare, Tyrannische, Raubthier- und Schlangenhafte am Menschen so gut zur Erhöhung der Species »Mensch« dient, als sein Gegensatz...

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art

• The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Clouds
  • Limitation