Leni Riefenstahl Olympia Quotes & Sayings

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle. — Abraham Lincoln

In this state, drugged by the rainy dusk, she almost always returned with sensual closeness to seaside childhood; once more she felt her heels in the pudding-softness of the hot tarred esplanade or her bare arm up to the elbow in rain-wet tamarisk. She smelt the shingle and heard it being sucked by the sea. — Elizabeth Bowen

You can never spend enough time with children. — Dwayne Hickman

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17. — Paul McCartney

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out ... — N. T. Wright

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story. — Shashi Tharoor

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war. — Leslie Groves

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars. — Nancy Astor