#ling

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#excellence #exists #itself #life #maybe

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#embarrassed #happy #i #selling #success

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#begins #first #get #happened #i

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#american people #degree #exchange #give #must

I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#bob #cut #face #falling #first

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#back #being #give #killing #lethal

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#dancing #down #feet #give #going

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#because #challenge #death #does #life

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#ask #black #calling #going #i

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. ↗

— Anna Freud

#children #elsewhere #emotions #engaged #feel