Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johan Huizinga

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Francis Bradley

I am glad to think my work has been of use to anyone. But that it deserves the time & trouble involved in an elaborate study I find difficult to believe. In other words the same pains bestowed on one of the well-known masters in the subject would in my opinion be better rewarded.

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice to the True Guru, who has bestowed the True Name. Night and day, I praise the True One; I sing the Glorious Praises of the True One. True is the food, and true are the clothes, of those who chant the True Name of the True One.

Mark Donahue

I think the honor should be bestowed on those who are deserving of the honor. I don't think that it the case in this situation.

quran quran

He was naught but a servant on whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an example for the children of Israel.

Tina Brown

The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.

Charles Glover Barkla

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

Ann Voskamp

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

Charles Spurgeon

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

Nicholas Winton

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Eugene Debs

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

Anne Fadiman

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Socrates

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Nelson Mandela

reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle.

Becca Fitzpatrick

What I really wanted was the impossible.

B. J. Novak

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

C. S. Lewis

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

Antoine Lavoisier

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Nabil Sha'ath

I think there are still problems, particularly on Jerusalem and refugees. But I don't see this now as something that is impossible to solve,

Russell Schweickart

That (will be) an impossible task, I'll tell you right now.

Enrique Bolanos

It is impossible to think you could evacuate 50,000 people between now and 6 in the morning. We don't have the means to do it, ... We are doing everything humanly possible.

Paul Browne

It is impossible to say how (achieving that) will play out worldwide.

Rosette Lerias

It is impossible to relocate everyone. This is a lesson for us but a lesson to which we have no permanent solutions.

Carrie Brownstein

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

Carl Rogers

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Unknown

May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for.

Edmund Spenser

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

Abraham Lincoln

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Alexander Crummell

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Ai Weiwei

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

Shane Price

It is important to us to say to victims and survivors of gunshots and violence that we are trying to do something.

Francisco Paz

Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Bette Davis

I will never be below the title.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Tom Harkin

No one ever wore the title of 'senator' better and used it less.

Adelaide Kane

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

Adam Lambert

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

Emily Besler

We don't need the title to make things happen.

Peyton Reed

What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.

Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.