#two

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#away #back #being #competitive #considered

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#american #championships #classics #each #feel

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#day #days #doing #extra #fitness

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#built #effective #extremely #fight #losing

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #behind #dad #daughter #deserved

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ↗

— Edward Irving

#fearful #i #ignorance #most #omen

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

#i #kind #life #maybe #me

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ↗

— Washington Irving

#felicity #marriage #strife #three #torment

I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#bringing #competition #general #good #great