#dal

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#gold #gold medals #i #made #many

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me. ↗

— Jerry Hall

#difficult #hang #his #i #liked

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#expected #going #gold #gold medal #medal

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#break #could #done #get #gold

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#duties #front #his #inverse #line

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when-- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#innuendo #will-herondale #sisters

Is it possible?” He could have sworn she was teasing. She shouldn’t have the energy for that. “What?” He lay next to her on his stomach, wrung out. Completely and utterly sated and yet thinking of the things he yet wanted to do to her. “You did.” Her voice was light, teasing even. “What?” “You begged, my lord.” He laughed softly. “To have you make love to me like that, I’ll beg you every night of my life, Lady Banallt. ↗

— Carolyn Jewel

#carolyn-jewel #scandal #sophie #life

He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one’s friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #sisters

Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#smile