Quotes About The Berlin Olympics

#1. The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

Anthony Lane

#2. Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry ... Friendship ... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

Robert Burns

#3. The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

Peter Singer

#4. Love until it hurts.

Mother Teresa

#5. To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

Paula Radcliffe

#6. It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

Daisy Berkowitz

#7. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#8. I've got to find Holmes."
"I guess that means you haven't heard. Oh, Jamie, I didn't want to be the one to tell you. But there's been an accident. A horrible, horrible accident.

Brittany Cavallaro

#9. I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams

#10. I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

Aaron Johnson

#11. You may break the clods, you may sow your seeds, but what can you do without the rain? As absolutely needful is the divine blessing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. Where's the purpose in life for a proper submissive, and loving slave, without a strong Master to care for, tending to his every need as it should be?

Johnny Stone

#13. We don't go in for that psychodynamic stuff around here. Those guys will talk you to death, clean out your bank account while they are doing it, and then invite you to come back and express your innermost feelings about being broke.

Forrest Carr