Clara Hughes Quotes

I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.

Clara Hughes

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• At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Better
  • Nutrition

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Progress
  • Depression
  • Slow

• Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Social
  • Parties
  • Introvert

• It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Heart
  • Choices
  • Rights

• And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Release

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Office

• I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Saying
  • Flag

• I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • Think
  • Way

• But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Help
  • Song

• If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

  

  Karl Rove
  • American
  • Want
  • Politics

• Henneberger: If the Bible is not literally true, does that mean we don’t need to take it seriously? L'Engle: Oh no, you do, because it’s truth, not fact, and you have to take truth seriously even when it expands beyond the facts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Truth
  • True
  • Bible

• The worker's existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity, and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer, And the demand on which the life of the worker depends, depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Luck

• You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She

• The stars are dead. The animals will not look. We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • May
  • History

• True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.

  

  Larry Wall
  • True
  • Interesting

• I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Week
  • My Own
  • Bullets

• I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

  

  Umair Haque
  • Dream
  • Passion
  • Risk

• Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Stop

• God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Jesus

• How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Beings

• I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.

  

  Clara Hughes