"People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids."

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Source : "U.S. Olympic trials: Q&A with legacy athlete Gail Devers". www.oregonlive.com. June 23, 2012.

Gail Devers

#Running Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Energy Engineering started first in IIT Kharagpur in 1983 and mine was the third batch. It was definitely not a popular course. It was basically an amalgamation of nuclear, mechanical, chemical engineering, etc. But I don't think it was a big factor because if we look, most of them joined the IT sectors and not the energy sector.”

Source : Source: themanipaljournal.com
“I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.”
“At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.”

Source : D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: Quillan Games”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.”
“There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.”
“In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.”
“It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.”
“Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they donâ€™t understand you at all.”

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