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.
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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.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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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.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.
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In many ways we've become the Babylon of the modern era. We learned our lessons at the feet of Nebuchadnezzar himself. It's little wonder that we've lived to see Bible reading and the display of the Ten Commandments removed from public view and creation science excluded from classroom instruction. None of this is new. It has its roots in Babylon, and thus reveals that the book of Daniel is one of the most relevant books of the Bible in our world today.
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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.