Medalist Country Quotes & Sayings

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there ... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay — Alexander Lukashenko

All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country. — Psy

Obduracy can be overcome by determination. More insidious, and far harder to destroy, was women's internalizing of the notion that they were somehow inferior to men, a complementary species designed (in W.R. Greg's words) to 'complet[e], sweeten, and embellish the existence of others'. [Women] still chose to become nurses rather than doctors, secretaries rather than bosses: to be ill-paid facilitators for people no more talented nor, in many cases, better educated than themselves, but who simply happened to be men. The notion that they might be their bosses' equals penetrated only very slowly; the possibility that they might even be their superiors, though accepted in theory, has perhaps still not wholly sunk in. — Ruth Brandon

People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy. — Prem Rawat

And in a universe of people that spend their todays searching for tomorrows, hope is the most powerful weapon you can have. — Romina Russell

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. — Jim Rohn

If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk. — Warren Buffett

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. — Heath L'Estrange

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you. — Rod Serling

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing. — Kevin Keegan

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. — Elizabeth Kenny

You're right not to talk. It's a sort of higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say. — Marilynne Robinson