Quotes About Kastor

#1. You were right about Kastor,' Damen said.
It was all he said.

C.S. Pacat

#2. What makes you think Kastor is the weaker man? you don't know him.' 'But I'm coming to know you,' said Laurent.

C.S. Pacat

#3. You look like a whore.' The soft words barely stirred the air by Damen's ear, inaudible to anyone else. Laurent murmured: 'Filthy painted slut. Did you spread for my uncle the way you did for Kastor?

C.S. Pacat

#4. I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

Deena Kastor

#5. I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.

Deena Kastor

#6. Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

#7. This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.

Lauren Willig

#8. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Deena Kastor

#9. I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.

Virginia Woolf

#10. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].

Deena Kastor

#11. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

James Cameron

#12. A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

Deena Kastor

#13. As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

Deena Kastor

#14. Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in ...

Leonard Cohen

#15. One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.

Deena Kastor

#16. Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.

Deena Kastor

#17. I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Deena Kastor

#18. Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.

Deena Kastor

#19. Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.

Erich Fromm

#20. I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race.

Deena Kastor

#21. Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you.

Deena Kastor

#22. In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

Harold E. Varmus

#23. Guilt is never to be doubted.

Franz Kafka

#24. Accustomed to lure him into speaking of himself. But she put them far less spontaneously, far less adroitly, than usual. Her one all-absorbing anxiety in entering that room was not an anxiety to be trifled with.

Wilkie Collins

#25. The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

Pope John Paul II

#26. We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

Deena Kastor