"Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone."

-- Rachel Hamilton

#Greatness Quotes #People Quotes #Stand Alone Quotes

“Who are you wearing? Who are you wearing?”
“The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.”
“All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.”
“The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.”

Source : Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1843). “History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc”, p.341
“The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.”
“To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.”
“The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a history and it is loaded with all kinds of implications and ideas. They exist in the world in a very special way. So they kind of represent some aspect of the world that we perceive, as do photographs, as do drawings of trees or whatever. And they are not a one to one. They are not the world, but they kind of refer to the world and they also exist in the world.”
“People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!”

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