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

• True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Greatness
  • Laws
  • Recognize

• Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • People
  • Face
  • Succeed

• Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Destroy

• There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • World
  • Category
  • George Mitchell

• I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Funny

• 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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