Alexander the Great Quotes

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?

Alexander the Great

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• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Proud
  • Growth

• I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Teenager
  • Known
  • Since

• You cannot deliver value unless you anchor the company's values. Values make an unsinkable ship.' Code of conduct goes beyond legal compliance and every employee needs to be well versed with it.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Value
  • Anchor

• There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Men
  • Art
  • Desire

• I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

  

  Joe Mauer
  • Cool

• This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Buddha

• Belief gets in the way of learning.

  

  Jeremy Collier
  • Learning

• I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Depression

• When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • May

• He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

  

  James Thurber

• The celebrated earthy tactility of Rabelais is a massive backwash of receding manuscript culture. (p. 170)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Culture

• It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Truth

• I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• You know it has all the kind of fun stuff. It has the countermeasures - we always talk about the countermeasures because people are like, "What the heck is countermeasures?" You know if I shot a missile at it, flares would pop out of those holes and stop the missile from hitting it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Fun
  • Stop

• Much of my inspiration definitely comes from the human experience. I'm really inspired by love like a lot of people are. My art, my childhood, and changes and transitions in life and how they impact me and cause me to write music.

  

  Zella Day
  • Music
  • Love
  • Art

• All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.

  

  Valery Bryusov
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Growth

• My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Black
  • Jewelry
  • Bag

• Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

  

  William Osler
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Enemy

• Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Feeling
  • I Believe
  • Joke

• That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Simple
  • Thought
  • Sound

• First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Community
  • Harmony

• Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Conquered
  • Multitude
  • Lamentation