Horace Greeley Quotes

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

Horace Greeley

• Joy
• Ambition
• Grief
• Sorrow
• Glorify

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Movie
  • You

• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

  Gary Hume
  • She
  • Always
  • Poetry

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • You
  • Day
  • Year

• Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Marriage
  • Dialogue
  • Final

• Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Good
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• Ὅρκοις τὰ μὴ δίκαια μὴ νικᾶν λέγω.

  

  Aeschylus

• I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Truth
  • War

• There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Truth
  • Lies

• I've always been self-conscious about my personality.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Personality

• There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

  

  Peter Eisenman

• The tongue should express what is in the heart.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Heart

• Chase your passion, not your pension.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Passion

• At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Safety

• I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

  

  Emily Browning

• I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

  

  John Sexton
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Photography

• Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.

  

  T. H. White
  • Life
  • World
  • Heaven

• I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • Proud
  • Style

• Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • Prayer

• Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Joy
  • Ambition
  • Grief