"I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness."

-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Religious Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Labor gives birth to ideas.”
“We see what we believe, not the other way around.”
“When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.”
“I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.”
“Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous." (J.R. on writing the BDB series)”
“When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.”
“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”
“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.”

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