Greatness quotes - page 37

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
 Alan Lightman
Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
 Ralph Ellison
Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.
The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
 Viktor E. Frankl
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.
 Keri Russell
When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
 Patti LaBelle
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
 B.K.S. Iyengar
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
 Audre Lorde
Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.
To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.
My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'
 Jason Segel
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
 Thucydides
The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.
People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.
 George Roy Hill
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
 W. E. B. Du Bois
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
 Julius Charles Hare
Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.
 Diablo Cody