Greatness quotes - page 31
Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.
When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.
Stanwood Cobb
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea. That’s only three. Alvis finished his wine. You have to do disappointment twice.
Jess Walter
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
John Milius
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
Meg Rosoff
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
Vera Farmiga
Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
John Ensign
It is not the position, but the disposition.
Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.
Ayelet Waldman
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Thurgood Marshall
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.
Herbert Hoover
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
Andrew Carnegie
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
Aisha Tyler
