"I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet."

-- Greg LeMond

#Groups Quotes #Charity Quotes #Nine Quotes

“I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.”
“The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.”

Source : Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.20
“There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.”
“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalistâ€™s work.”
“I dedicated myself to the game and never disrespected it.”
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

Source : T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.938, Faber & Faber
“I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.”
“Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.”

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