Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

Pierre de Coubertin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 1, 1863 - September 2, 1937

Topics

GoodJoyUnderstandingHumanityWay

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

Michael Ignatieff

ImaginationLovingCountryAct

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Jean Piaget

KnowledgeHistoryMomentPastMore

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

WindowWorldNewspaperCovered

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

Sissy Spacek

HomeNew YorkCityTexasLovedBack

The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

RevolutionUncertaintyAuthorityTurn

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

Tony McCoy

MyselfDreamPossibleUpConvince

I always had a great history of comics. I've been buying them since I was six years old. I was a student of the craft.

Rob Liefeld

HistoryGreatStudentCraftOld

If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Clint Eastwood

MusicLittle ThingsStartReadingGo

I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.

Peter Sis

ThinkLongBornCountryNowEat

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

LifeFictionUsChancesSecond

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

Sharon Van Etten

Getting OlderCaringPeopleThink

As in all TV shows, and especially a show called 'Mistresses,' all is not going to be as it seems.

Ricky Whittle

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