Paavo Nurmi Running Quotes

#1. Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort.

Josh Lanyon

#3. Really, I don't like roller coasters.

Kevin Hart

#4. My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#5. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.

Gwenn Wright

#6. Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure.

Tennessee Williams

#7. Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.

Winston Graham

#8. what do we want to become?

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

Paavo Nurmi

#10. It's not easy to talk like this with other people because they don't know. They don't know what it's like to be hated by the people who are supposed to love you.

Rebecca Donovan

#11. I ran for myself, not Finland.

Paavo Nurmi

#12. Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Bohr