Michelangelo Quotes

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo

• Danger
• Aim
• Achieving

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Father
  • Game
  • Involved

• And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Energy
  • Independent
  • Security

• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Everything
  • I Can
  • Audition

• I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Never
  • Working
  • Class

• Fear is the passion of slaves.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Slaves

• If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Party
  • Government
  • Feel

• Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Up
  • New
  • Speed

• Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Important
  • Business
  • Job

• Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion

• We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Real
  • Defeated

• I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Man
  • Light

• People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • People
  • Trying
  • Matter

• My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • People
  • Together
  • Opinion

• Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Done
  • American
  • History

• I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Famous
  • Driving
  • Prison

• People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Book
  • Human Society
  • Ghost Stories

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Convince
  • Pavement
  • Fascist

• I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Achieved
  • Gravitation
  • Eminence

• I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die.

  

  Katsura Hoshino
  • Die
  • Going
  • Walker

• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Danger
  • Aim
  • Achieving