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“Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.”
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“When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.”
Source : "Gold medal moms prepare to storm Beijing" by By Jen Brown, www.today.com. August 04, 2010. 
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“I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win”
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“The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.”
Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1979). “Sisters: shared histories, lifelong ties”, Red Wheel
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“When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.”
Source : "Pulitzer Prize-Winner Sharon Olds Talks Poetry, Divorce" By Brittany Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.
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“This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives.”
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“The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.”
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“Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit”
Source : "Queen's speech: William and Kate's wedding a reminder of value of loved ones, says Queen in Christmas message". www.mirror.co.uk. December 25, 2011.
