Beryl Markham Quotes
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
Salma Hayek
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
Victoria Justice
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
Karine Vanasse
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
Rafael Cruz
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
Abu Bakr
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
Alexander Hamilton
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Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.
Lisa Murkowski
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I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.
Jason Day
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I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
Bernard Hopkins
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A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.
David Limbaugh
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France cannot be France without greatness.
Charles de Gaulle
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I lost myself somewhere. And that’s a very sad thing. Losing yourself is sad and heartbreaking. Fucking sad and fucking heartbreaking. Losing yourself isn’t like losing a key to your house. It isn’t like losing an expensive pair of sunglasses or even the only copy of the greatest screenplay you’ve ever written.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
Elizabeth Fry
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A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
Confucius
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
Beryl Markham