#ear

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.' ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#always #been #dream #getting #i

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#attacked #cancer #competing #diagnosis #fearless

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#better #continuing #get #get married #how

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#fear #free #free society #her #his

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#advance #because #between #call #cannot

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#complement #cool #even #everybody #good

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#am #because #believe #comes #earth

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#choice #choose #doubt #else #everyone

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#democracy #experience #fear #having #lived

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#black #different #everyone #i #red