"No man is a hero in his own country."

#Leadership Quotes #Country Quotes #Hero Quotes

“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”
“I'll always go back to the stage.”

Source : "Mouse Confusion". Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 19, 1997.
“To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.”
“In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.”
“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.344, A&C Black
“American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.”
“Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.”
“I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.”

Source : "Balotelli: I'm a misunderstood genius". Interview to France Football, www.espnfc.com.

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