"I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose."

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Source : "Khorkina lashes judges as cheats". www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2004.

Svetlana Khorkina

#Firsts Quotes #Events Quotes #Stage Quotes

“Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. August 2004.
“He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.”

Source : Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.448, Lulu.com
“I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.”
“Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.”
“Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the moment that European opinion decided for toleration, it decided for eventual free marketing opinion.”

Source : Source: ibnwarraq.com
“I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently,”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.”
“In a recent dream, God revealed to me a door leading us into four new hopes that will prepare us to be like those who were healed and strengthened in hope and able to stand when the lightning bolt hit. We deal with these fissures of hopelessness by stepping into these new hopes. The four new hopes that I saw the Lord giving us in this time are: Hope for the Unseen, Hope Against Hope, Carefree Hope, and Childlike Hope.”

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