Jim Thorpe Olympic Quotes

#1. 'No' is always an easier stand than 'Yes.'

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#2. Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body.

Gary Yourofsky

#3. She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.

Kellan Lutz

#5. Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.

Russell Means

#6. I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible?

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

Katherine Dunn

#8. The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today.

Thurgood Marshall

#9. I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Aleister Crowley

#10. Fuck the past. This was the present.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

Kenneth Grahame

#12. Killing you," he said. It was almost freeing, not being able to lie.

V.E Schwab

#13. Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#14. I am not a player.

Marat Safin

#15. My cousin Jeff used to say that the tragedy of relationships is that women want men to change, and they don't, while men don't want women to change, and they do.

Maggie McNeill