"I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasnâ€™t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do."

-- Sebastian Coe

#Sports Quotes #Games Quotes #People Quotes

“I looked like a ghost. And I should know. Iâ€™ve seen a few.”
“I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (1988). “The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories”, p.80, Penguin Books India
“I want to be in Chicago. I'd like to.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I believe everything has a solution, and I take it one day at a time or one thing at a time.”
“A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.”
“Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.”
“It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.”
“To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.”

Source : George Mikes (1983). “How to be poor”, A. Deutsch and M. Sutkiewicz Pub.

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