1932 Olympics Quotes & Sayings

Only afterward did the guilt set in
the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty. — Tiffany Reisz

The serious people have gone, I build my team again and again I just the un-sirious people if this is sirious let's see a bus which can be handled in the air by the weakest person on the Earth. — Deyth Banger

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. — John Le Carre

I want you to know that I would be happy if the two of us spent the rest of our lives living in the cabin. It's not the size of the house that makes it a home. It's the love inside. Marrying you is the best decision I've ever made, Eric Hawke. — Pamela Clare

The implication that women as a category are unreliable and that false rape charges are the real issue is used to silence individual women and to avoid discussing sexual violence, and to make out men as the principal victims. — Rebecca Solnit

Confidence is everything, but a little makeup can't hurt. — Bobbi Brown

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything? — Cormac McCarthy

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark. — Charles M. Blow

There are no bystanders in life [ ... ] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves. — Sonia Sotomayor

Did you know? Duke Kahanamoku competed in four Olympics from 1912 to 1932 setting three world-records, while winning three gold medals, two silver, and one bronze. — John Richard Stephens

Mac people use their computers; Windows people put up with their computers — Wil Shipley

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap. — Dolly Parton

I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work. I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for. — Thomas A. Edison

However, after 1930 Liddell never competed again in public in a major athletic meeting. Did he ever regret missing the 1928 Olympics and the chance of winning at least another gold medal? Did he lament trading fame and glory for a life of obscurity and hardship? He gave clear and unequivocal answers to these questions when interviewed in Canada at the end of his first furlough in 1932. 'Are you glad you gave your life to missionary work? Don't you miss the limelight, the rush, the frenzy, the cheers, the rich red wine of victory?' probed the interviewer in rather florid prose. 'Oh well, of course it's natural for a chap to think over all that sometimes,' replied Liddell. 'But I'm glad I'm at the work I'm engaged in now. A fellow's life counts for far more for this than the other. Not a corruptible crown, but an incorruptible one, you know. — Julian Wilson

All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live. -Ygritte — George R R Martin

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely? — Henry David Thoreau