#fe

Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience. ↗

— Kohei Uchimura

#ago #atmosphere #completely #different #enjoy

And understand: class differences will not save you. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#differences #save #understand #will #you

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#compassionate #feet #had #i #i think

I shared what we were learning, so that others might grow in their faith through the testing of ours. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#hope #testing #trials-of-life #faith

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#prayer #referee #trials #faith

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#father #financial #manager #mother #office

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#been #commitment #community #family #family life

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#feel #friends #resentful #succeed #superior

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current