#rio

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#change #creative #hypnotized #images #improved

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games. ↗

— Taufik Hidayat

#badminton #dropped #federation #format #games

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#cambridge #committed #community #days #derek

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#baton #business #first #greatest #ian

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#beautiful #beautiful thing #experience #most #most beautiful

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bored #fact #get #land #opportunity

However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#beginning #clear #europe #four #had

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #contest #depend #does #enter

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#during #engine #eu #europe #important

In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#actually #addition #balanced #because #clinton