"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."

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Albert Camus

#Greatness Quotes #Trying Quotes #Way Quotes

“One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.”
“I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.”
“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”
“I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.”
“If you cannot handle the pressure, don't be an entrepreneur. Go get a job!”
“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
“I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.”

Source : Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”
“And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power... Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share â€” That we lost.”

Source : "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna" by Ron Laytner in The Deseret News (pp. C1+, 12C), February 19, 1981.

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