Jenn Suhr Quotes

#1. Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. There are no gains without pains; then help hands, for I have no lands;

Benjamin Franklin

#2. It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.

Jenn Suhr

#3. I'm actually improving.

Jenn Suhr

#4. The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father.

Svetlana Alexievich

#5. The best way of avoiding mistakes is doing nothing

Thabiso Monkoe

#6. It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

Jenn Suhr

#7. Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Kazuo Inamori

#8. My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

Gregory Maguire

#10. I'm becoming more powerful.

Jenn Suhr

#11. Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Paul Brunton

#12. I have a wild game camera.

Jenn Suhr

#13. It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

Jenn Suhr

#14. The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.

Laini Taylor

#15. I've made some mistakes before.

Jenn Suhr

#16. When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.

Jenn Suhr

#17. There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

Jenn Suhr

#18. Animals and places are not the most mysterious thing in the world. Life is most mysterious cause there is one question that cannot be answered. What is the meaning of life.

Anthony Castillo

#19. Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

Jenn Suhr

#20. The thing with life is you get one chance.

Karen Kingsbury

#21. Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.

Elizabeth Alexander

#22. Complex means simply difficult.

Vikrmn

#23. If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

John Graves

#24. History is a game played backwards only.

Marge Piercy