#ren

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#competition #conceive #courage #designed #embody

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I was different. ↗

— Brian Welch

#big heart #different #fans #had #heart

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves. ↗

— James Welch

#because #fringes #funny #had #indians

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. ↗

— Robert Welch

#deal #difference #endowed #great #great deal

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#being nice #bully #children #especially #generally

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#arrived #been #country #dakota #first

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#discreet #mysterious #render #things #unnecessary

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#heart-renching #love #life

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#practice-god-s-presence #simplicity #beauty