"It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I……" — Jesse Owens
"It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know."
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38 Quotes by Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens has 38 quotes on this site.
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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.
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One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks…
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We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as…
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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country,…
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of…
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Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see…
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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers.…
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If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of…
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I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in…
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After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going…
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The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the…
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More Blinding Quotes
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Success and money can really be quite blinding.
— Jim Harrison
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding…
— Margery Allingham
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Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
— Richard Bach
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When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why,"…
— Eugene Ionesco
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What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those…
— John Green
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God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after…
— Grace Noll Crowell
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred…
— Ann Coulter
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And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on…
— Lauren Oliver
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere…
— Trevor Baylis
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Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes…
— Rose Macaulay
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