"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."

-- John Keats

#War Quotes #Failure Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and ***** were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".”
“I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.”
“Players will be able to adjust the volume from 1 to 100 in increments of 1. You could play the game 100 times and have an entirely different experience.”
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?”
“I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.”

Source : Theocritus, Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (1952). “Theocritus”, p.113, Cambridge University Press
“We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (1996). “Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.”

Source : 1557 'Farewell, Love'.

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