Alexander the Great Quotes

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

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• I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Support
  • Grateful

• Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Child

• I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Recognize
  • Volume
  • Appreciative

• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Faith

• When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Dress
  • Recognize

• In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Reality
  • Order
  • Lives

• After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • War
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Recognize

• William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Work
  • God
  • Heaven

• A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Woman
  • Knows

• God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • God
  • Earth
  • Conversion

• I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Tennis
  • Accomplishments

• If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Secret
  • Recognize

• Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Recognize

• I recognize that here are very efficiently run cooperatives. There are many opportunities for the Socorro Electric Cooperative to cut costs and offer more services.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Opportunities
  • Recognize
  • Services

• Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Peace
  • Passion
  • Blessings

• Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Believe
  • Recognize
  • Symptoms

• Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted...

  

  Javan
  • Life
  • Opportunities
  • Recognize

• The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Ability
  • Recognize
  • Chief

• The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

  

  Wesley Morris
  • Culture
  • Special
  • Soldier

• I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Fun
  • Strong
  • Woman

• I thought of what my father had told me one summer day. I’d fallen down, and my knee was all scraped up and bleeding. We sat on the back porch, and he cleaned my wound and put a Band-Aid on it. The sky had cleared after a summer storm. I’d been crying, and he tried to get me to smile. “Your eyes are the color of sky. Did you know that?” I don’t know why I remembered this. Maybe it was because I knew he was telling me he loved me.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Smile
  • Storm
  • My Father

• As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

  

  Alexander the Great
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  • Accomplishments
  • Labors