Quotables

“Let me be the vessel in which You’re glorified, whatever the result is.”

American hurdler SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE, 25, describing how she prays before stepping onto the track. Her time of 50.37 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 8 broke her own world record and won a gold medal.

“Historically, the vice president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact.”

Republican presidential candidate DONALD TRUMP answering a question at the July 31 National Association of Black Journalists conference about whether his running mate, J.D. Vance, would be ready for the vice president job.

“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”

U.S. District Judge AMIT MEHTA in an Aug. 5 ruling against Google in a federal antitrust lawsuit. Google has vowed to appeal.

“This study adds to the revolution that has occurred in our ability to measure what’s going on in the brain of living humans.”

Penn Memory Center co-director JASON KARLAWISH discussing a JAMA paper about a new blood test that could accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s disease.¹

“He wants to be a boy.”

California father HARRISON TINSLEY after winning full custody of his 4-year-old son, whose mother wanted to raise him nonbinary.²

¹The New York Times, ²The Daily Signal