William Ernest Henley Quotes

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

William Ernest Henley

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• I have an appetite to always learn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Appetite

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
  • Dancing
  • Australia

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Why
  • Me
  • Popular

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Missing

• There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Help
  • Illness
  • Universal

• The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Government
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • People
  • Today
  • Strong

• If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

  

  Peter Sarsgaard

• Sadly, they played very dirty. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style... If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they lost.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Lost
  • Style
  • Football

• Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • People
  • Style
  • Color

• It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Up
  • Me
  • Government

• Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Ocean