"To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable."

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Source : Sebastian Coe, Nicholas Mason (1988). “The Olympians: A Quest for Gold: Triumphs, Heroes & Legends”

Sebastian Coe

#Believe Quotes #Long Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.”
“If you want to see theater you go to New York.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one's family language.”
“Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.”
“The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.”
“Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.”

Source : C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.4, Cambridge University Press
“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”

Source : Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.157, Macmillan
“I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.”

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