"I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner."

-- Sebastian Coe

#Running Quotes #Kids Quotes #Names Quotes

“For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.”
“Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.”
“This whole world is full of God!”

Source : Angela (of Foligno) (1909). “The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”
“Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.”
“When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.”
“We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism”
“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”
“You won't be able to hurt me, or touch me.”

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