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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Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.
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It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.
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There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.
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Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's even more memorable when I see my kids there with my wife and everything. That's what touched me the most, to be quite honest. The disappointment of the match itself went pretty quickly.
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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.
