"If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain."

-- Paavo Nurmi

#Running Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Winning Quotes

“There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...”
“You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.”
“I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.”

Source : Sappho (2007). “The Poetry of Sappho”, p.16, Oxford University Press
“The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.”
“Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.”
“Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved,be like that to me!”
“How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.”
“Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.”

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