"Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples."

-- Lewis Howard Latimer

#Success Quotes #Pride Quotes #Leader Quotes

“I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.”
“The only thing that you might see that is a planned tweet is if I am tweeting about an event or promoting an artist. But really, it is not planned. If I am sitting in front of my computer, I'm like, "Oh, okay, lets tweet about this and attach the link." I try to be spontaneous with the tweeting. It keeps it fun, you never know when or what I may tweet about.”
“Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time.”
“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.”
“America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.”
“I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.”
“Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.”

Source : Terry Jones (2009). “Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python”, p.2, Nation Books
“Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...”

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