Quotes & Sayings About Athletes About Losing

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old. — Carol Grace

We make assumptions every day about other people's genders without ever seeing their birth certificates, their chromosomes, their genitals, their reproductive systems, their childhood socialization, or their legal sex. There is no such thing as a "real" gender - there is only the gender we experience ourselves as and the gender we perceive other to be. — Julia Serano

What do I want?" His arms caged her on either side, his body pressing hot and hard against hers. "You, Aiwattsi. Only you. — Victoria Vane

While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually that complicated. — Margaret D. Klein

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have learned how to enjoy the minute particulars of life once again, the grace of a hot cup of coffee, the presence of a friend, the blessing of having a new cake of soap or an hour without pain. Such humble experience is the stuff that many of the very best stories are made of. If we think we have no stories it is because we have not paid enough attention to our lives. Most of us live lives that are far richer and more meaningful than we appreciate. — Rachel Naomi Remen

How did it happen that an enlightened country like Germany was pulled into Nazism? That question has occupied me since 'The Tin Drum,' my first book. The story also shows that we can never know how a person's life will unfold; there is no guarantee that a person will do what is right and avoid what is not right. — Gunter Grass

I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower. — Brian Grazer

Why let taste get in the way of a good investment? — S A Smythe

One of the faces of God is the face of a woman. — Paulo Coelho

Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time. — Eleanor Catton

A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine. — Moshe Safdie