"I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer."

-- Amanda Beard

#Mom Quotes #People Quotes #Swimmer Quotes

“There is no armor against fate.”

Source : James Shirley, “From Ajax Dirge”
“Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.”

Source : "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, 1958.
“Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are a reflection of our culture and of our priorities. Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse.”
“The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of ***** for five seconds.”
“I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.”
“Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.”
“The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partnerâ€™s imagination.”

Source : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.93, Routledge
“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Source : Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”

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