#wi

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. ↗

— Laure Manaudou

#any #athens #beijing #everybody #expectations

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#certain #hardly #important #important way #participated

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming. ↗

— Thia Megia

#amazing #find #heartwarming #i #inspire

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#closer #debate #emerge #end #engage

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#dignity #institution #lose #man #me

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. ↗

— Og Mandino

#determination #enough #failure #me #never

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#along #because #call #couples #each

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away. ↗

— Thia Megia

#crowd #energy #i #nerves #once

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#brought #different #glad #had #hard

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#am #being #change #consciousness #contribution