#ex

I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#days #down #enjoy #few #few people

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. ↗

— Thucydides

#brilliant #charge #expect #frequently #men

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. ↗

— Thucydides

#cheated #compelled #equal #excited #first

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#any #bug #difficult #disease #especially

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #deserve #every #everything #example

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#amazing experience #best #experience #experiences #intimate

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. ↗

— Voltaire

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#everything #except #first #form #grow

And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled the world, I lived out of a suitcase. I stayed up until dawn. I did all of those things that were very exciting. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#dawn #did #exciting #first #had

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#asking #being #even #existence #hurt