"I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person."

-- Teri McKeever

#Girl Quotes #Sports Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first emerged in city/states known now as Greece. This was coming from a society in which 30 thousand citizens had rights and 300 thousand were slaves and citizens without rights that lived in this territory. So that was the concept of western democracy; some citizens had the prerogative of exerting their civil and political rights while the others had none.”
“People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.”

Source : Terry Eagleton (2010). “On Evil”, p.4, Yale University Press
“One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”
“Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background”
“I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.”

Source : "Rights groups: prominent Chinese activist and wife beaten" by Jo Ling Kent and Jaime Florcruz, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2011.
“You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.”
“That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.”
“I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.”

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