Comaneci Of Gymnastics Quotes & Sayings

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible. — David Korten

The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage
"That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury — J.R. Ward

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition. — Nadia Comaneci

Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There's no need to ponder the question. There is no such person. He — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere. — Sunday Adelaja

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. — Nadia Comaneci

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6. — Nadia Comaneci

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you'll do your best thinking that way. And that's why I've always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don't go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off. — Harry Truman

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking. — Jason Reitman

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission. — Nadia Comaneci

Whilst in Pipalyatjara, I learnt that the Pitjantjara people were trying to have their land turned from leasehold to freehold. The attitude of the elders at first had been to dismiss the whole question. As far as they were concerned they didn't own the land, the land owned them. Their belief was that the earth was traversed in the dream-time by ancestral beings who had supernatural energy and power. These beings were biologically different from contemporary man, some being a synthesis of man and animal, plant, or forces such as fire or water... — Robyn Davidson

By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith . Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic . — Philip Jose Farmer

When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for. — Anne Fadiman

The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability. — Seneca.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture. — Edward O. Wilson

If life didn't end... there would be no need for me to choose love in the face of death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more than it otherwise might have been. — Martha Brockenbrough

The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body. — Edward Gibbon