Catherine Ndereba quotes

“If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.”
-- Catherine Ndereba

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“I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.”
-- Catherine Ndereba

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“If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.”
-- Catherine Ndereba

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“I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.”
-- Catherine Ndereba

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“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.

“The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?”

“Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.”

“This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”

“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

“A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.”

“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.128, Courier Corporation

“I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.”

“If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com