#stand

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#difficulty #doing #going #gold #gold medal

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#buildings #cannot #comprehend #medieval #really

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#ceremony #changes #day #disagree #drill

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#cope #dealing #educate #fight #figure

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#am #annoying #being #being myself #challenging

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#life #now #opportunities #parents #quality

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#battlefield #because #been #english #english language

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#depths #hard #i #i think #love

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#best work #completely #do your best #fascinated #i

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#away #english #go #go away #i