Comaneci The Gymnast Quotes & Sayings

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport. — Nadia Comaneci

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art. — Kristen Wiig

I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled. — Phyllis T. Smith

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot — Nadia Comaneci

I will not be triumphed over. — Cleopatra

I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State — Zach Braff

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable. — Laurie Lee

It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf's class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and breeding as in the benefits of battle lore and killing competence. Ranulf had accepted this comforting conviction, too, but no one seemed to have told his assailants that they were inferior adversaries. — Sharon Kay Penman

To be sure, if psychopaths do recognize that actions that are harmful are proscribed, this raises a question about why psychopaths and control criminals provide different explanations for why it is wrong to hit or pull someone's hair. Psychopaths offered conventional-type justifications (e.g., "it's not the done thing" [the subjects were British]), whereas the nonpsychopathic criminals offered justifications based on the victim's welfare. — Shaun Nichols

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress,
but collective knowledge of the society and market demands. — Toba Beta

Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, — T. S. Eliot

In the two weeks following the All-Star Game, baseball was largely upstaged by the events of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal, including Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's seven perfect 10.0 scores, Bruce Jenner's record-setting decathlon triumph, and the five gold medals won by U.S. boxers Howard Davis Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Leo Randolph, and brothers Leon and Michael Spinks - the mightiest performance of any American boxing team in Olympic history. — Dan Epstein

How they had dreamed together, he and she ... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

The Lord saved my soul. — Steve Harvey