Michael Atherton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
-- Michael Atherton

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Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.
-- Michael Atherton

#Grumpiness #Sometimes #Concentration
Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.
-- Michael Atherton

#Kings #Children #Rays
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?
-- Michael Atherton

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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

Michael Atherton famous quotes

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