Winter Olympic Motivational Quotes & Sayings

The homeland, the myth of the homeland, becomes a fundamental value for those who have nothing else( ... )In a world where power, like wealth, falls to the few, where no merit guarantees a reward and justice becomes a commodity like anything else, the human heart needs fortification. It needs something permanent, something available to everyone, irrespective of their merits, of the political climate, of prestige, authority, or affluence. It may be that for the disinherited, this final place is their place of birth. A law that says we are all born equal is as beautiful as it is impossible to enact. But the fact that we are all born in a particular place is hard to question. For many of us, if not the majority, this is the only incontrovertible foundation of our fate. — Andrzej Stasiuk

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I won't say anything, but you should tell them. It's not weakness to admit you're not perfect. — Jess Bowen

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. — Edward Snowden

Make the visible a little hard to see. — Wallace Stevens

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards. — Jean Cocteau

It is vital that we recognize and tend to our unmet needs, because if we don't take the time to care for them we will constantly find ourselves headed down paths that lead us away from our goals rather than toward what we desire. When we don't deal with the unfulfilled needs inside us, they continue to drive us to act impulsively, to forsake our long-term vision in favor of short-term gratification. Then our unfulfilled needs, not our vision, drive our behaviors. — Debbie Ford

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top. — Yvette Nicole Brown

Its a metaphor, you see. You put the killing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill. A metaphor. — John Green

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it. — Jo Brand

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away. — E.L. Doctorow

I hate that people assume guys are the only ones to want sex. Girls want sex, too, and that shouldn't be a problem. — Chelsea Handler

Life is as large as you explore it. — Andrija Jonic

I Survived the Black Plague — Cynthia Hand

She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own — Salman Rushdie