Gail Devers Quotes
In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Gail Devers
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
Yo-Yo Ma
Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
Tahl Raz
Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
Maggie Hassan
I don't care about revenues.
Jack Ma
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
Aaron Johnson
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
Os Guinness
Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
Maggie Grace
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance
Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
Randi Weingarten
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.
C. S. Lewis
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
Chelsea Clinton
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
John Maynard Keynes
'You want me to go into a sewer, Mister Sharpe?' Sarah asked in a small voice.'No, miss, I don't', Sharpe said. 'I want you to be in green fields and happy, with enough money to last you the rest of your life. But to get you there I have to go through a sewer.'
Bernard Cornwell
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Gail Devers
