#dal

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #love

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. ↗

— Josh Billings

#old #scandal #sweeten #tea #their

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best. ↗

— Mary Decker

#added #athlete #athletic #back #because

I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment. ↗

— Gail Devers

#career #country #disappointment #gold #gold medals

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#expecting #get #gold #good #good thing

Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don’t have anything more than you — they have something less. What they lack are the self-imposed blocks to the outflow of this infinite creative intelligence. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #intelligence

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#come #games #leave #medal #olympic

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#alcoholism #animal #child #divine #drinking

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#art #dalai #dalai lama #down-to-earth #friday

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so. ↗

— Lindy Boggs

#connotation #dallas #dangerous #devoted #following